I do siding, soffit, fascia and eavestrough on mainly renovations.
I work most of my life 2/3 stories above the ground with no safety equipment, generally because fastening the anchors in a workable place is 10 times more dangerous than just not using the safety equipment (generally because you're supposed to have the fall protection in place because we're just barely above the requirement, but to get it into place we have to essentially go double the requirement height or more to place the anchor - so we're talking the difference between a fall that might break your arm or leg to a fall that might put you in the ICU).
The part of my job I like is figuring out the solution simply to get set up to do the job. Just recently I had to figure out how to get our staging poles up in a 3ft gap between houses to do a dormer. The only problem is it was about 26ft in the air and at best I'm supposed to have the bottom of my ladder out 9 feet and I can only manage 2 to be able to get past the eave. In the end I had to use 2 ladders simply to get onto my ladder as you have to keep your weight past the centre of balance otherwise your ladder will pull back and then bad shit generally ensues.
I have the utmost respect for the keyboard cowboys because my brother is a developer and I've seen how hard he works. Back in the day I used to develop, but I didn't have the interest to pursue it. I know the jobs are hard, and I've seen my brother come home and spend a few hours working on his own code after he's already done 8 hours of company code.
I, however, don't have respect for the developers that think their job is the only "real job" out there or that they're the only ones who work hard.
In my experience I see people across the board who are extremely hard workers from people doing minimum wage jobs in walmart to doctors. I've also seen lazy people across the board from walmart to hospitals. People are people, some are hard workers and some are lazy fucks. It would be nice to see the hard workers in jobs rewarded far more than the lazy, regardless of what job they're doing.
I work most of my life 2/3 stories above the ground with no safety equipment, generally because fastening the anchors in a workable place is 10 times more dangerous than just not using the safety equipment (generally because you're supposed to have the fall protection in place because we're just barely above the requirement, but to get it into place we have to essentially go double the requirement height or more to place the anchor - so we're talking the difference between a fall that might break your arm or leg to a fall that might put you in the ICU).
The part of my job I like is figuring out the solution simply to get set up to do the job. Just recently I had to figure out how to get our staging poles up in a 3ft gap between houses to do a dormer. The only problem is it was about 26ft in the air and at best I'm supposed to have the bottom of my ladder out 9 feet and I can only manage 2 to be able to get past the eave. In the end I had to use 2 ladders simply to get onto my ladder as you have to keep your weight past the centre of balance otherwise your ladder will pull back and then bad shit generally ensues.
I have the utmost respect for the keyboard cowboys because my brother is a developer and I've seen how hard he works. Back in the day I used to develop, but I didn't have the interest to pursue it. I know the jobs are hard, and I've seen my brother come home and spend a few hours working on his own code after he's already done 8 hours of company code.
I, however, don't have respect for the developers that think their job is the only "real job" out there or that they're the only ones who work hard.
In my experience I see people across the board who are extremely hard workers from people doing minimum wage jobs in walmart to doctors. I've also seen lazy people across the board from walmart to hospitals. People are people, some are hard workers and some are lazy fucks. It would be nice to see the hard workers in jobs rewarded far more than the lazy, regardless of what job they're doing.