Fear Of Heights
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Fear Of Heights
ok so i have been at my new job (carpentry) for about a month now..
i haven't seen my boss since i started besides to pick up my check. he went in for a quadruple bypass the day i started. every one i work with has been great. and work with me cuz i don't like heights. i get about 10 feet up and get nervous. i keep trying regardless. once i break about 10 feet my work gets sloppy and i'm real slow working and holding on to what ever i can with a death grip.
even i find it odd because i have no problem with say riding my bike over 100mph.
any way my boss found out that i don't like heights. talked to me when i picked up my check. i just told him, if i had told you would you have hired me? he said no.
because it's a job requirement. i told him that i realize this is something i need to get over and i figured if i want the job bad enough i will just need to keep working at it thats the best i have to offer. he seemed ok with that and understood.
it seems like no matter how hard i try.. the one fear i have i can't get rid of.
it's irritating as hell too! what do you guys suggest? cuz i really like this job the people are great!
i haven't seen my boss since i started besides to pick up my check. he went in for a quadruple bypass the day i started. every one i work with has been great. and work with me cuz i don't like heights. i get about 10 feet up and get nervous. i keep trying regardless. once i break about 10 feet my work gets sloppy and i'm real slow working and holding on to what ever i can with a death grip.
even i find it odd because i have no problem with say riding my bike over 100mph.
any way my boss found out that i don't like heights. talked to me when i picked up my check. i just told him, if i had told you would you have hired me? he said no.
because it's a job requirement. i told him that i realize this is something i need to get over and i figured if i want the job bad enough i will just need to keep working at it thats the best i have to offer. he seemed ok with that and understood.
it seems like no matter how hard i try.. the one fear i have i can't get rid of.
it's irritating as hell too! what do you guys suggest? cuz i really like this job the people are great!
#2
Is it the hights that bother you are the ladders. I did roofing for a while and the hights didnt bother me but climbing the ladders and working from ladders is what bothered me. I found just to keep at it and started to trust my self. The more you do it the more you feel safe. Thats the best i can help ya bud.
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Is it the hights that bother you are the ladders. I did roofing for a while and the hights didnt bother me but climbing the ladders and working from ladders is what bothered me. I found just to keep at it and started to trust my self. The more you do it the more you feel safe. Thats the best i can help ya bud.
i took some singles up to the guys on the addition that up 3 stoies. i was more nervous cuz the singles where riding against the ladder the whole way up and kinda throwing me off balance.
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I'm about the same way, I just can't look over the edge. As long as I'm lookin out and down I'm fine. I tried strippin the gutters off a 3 story house one time to but I had two ladders with the plank in between em using them as walkways. That was a little to much for my world. I tied a rope off from the chimney and used a harness for that one.
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in the 6 weeks i worked at the overhead door company i never tied off once, never even mentioned a harness and we were working on doors that was 25 feet tall, and my big 340 pound *** was on a 250 pound rated aluminum extension ladder......talk about flex.......sometimes i didnt even have anything to hold onto.......
#10
There was a big fuss around here about the new OSHA regs on this, until the day came and they were in affect and then eveybody just ignored them anyway. I have yet to see a single company using a single harness.
I didn't even mind the fall off the barn roof so much as I did all the time I had to think about how bad it was gonna hurt while I was fallin. That short time was worse then the landing.
I didn't even mind the fall off the barn roof so much as I did all the time I had to think about how bad it was gonna hurt while I was fallin. That short time was worse then the landing.