Is this a job you could do? (pic)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I'm one of those people with a ridiculous fear of tall buildings- I can't go up above about eight stories or so and look out the window without feeling fear deep down inside. Oddly enough, I am NOT afraid of flying- I LOVE the window seat in a plane. In fact my dad used to fly a Cessna, and we'd buzz all over the countryside in it, and it was fun.

Odd sort of fear to have, but there it is. Even looking at this pic freaks me out a bit.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. NNNNNOPE!

[johnnie]

2. That pic freaked me out a bit also

I am like you, planes don't bother me. Even if I look up at something high I get a little vertigo.

[SeattleGirl]

3. No. F-ing. Way.

:scared:

[babylonsister]

4. I cannot walk up or down really high/tall stairs w/o a handrail, for

fear I will fall off. I remember sliding down stairs once, purposefully and on my butt, that's how scared I was.
Yet I fly a lot. :shrug: It must be a control, or lack of, thing.

[Omphaloskepsis]

5. No fucking way..

I freak out on a 3 meter ladder.. I enjoy flying in a airplane.. I imagine I would freak out on a 3 meter ladder inside of an airplane.

[radwriter0555]

6. I was a rigger on rock n roll shows, and ran flying follow spots AND ran

spots WAAAAAAAAAAAY high in the ceiling trusses... YEEEE HAH! I LOVE being way, way, way, way, way high.

I should be able to start flying lessons in mid-late 2006, and I desperately want my own small plane.

(I was a stagehand building sets and working in the technical aspect of large arena rock n roll shows)

[haydukelives]

7. Not just no.......

[northofdenali]

8. Nope. No way. Just looking at this picture

makes my stomach do flip-flops.

Like you, an airplane (including the little guys) or even a helicopter is no problem. But DAMN, don't get me on a ladder!!! :scared:

[CarpeDiebold]

9. YES! WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!?!

I love this kind of thing. Damn, that looks like so much fun!!!!

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. It's neither ridiculous nor odd

Quite a common fear, in fact.

There's no way in heaven, hell or anywhere in between I could do what those guys are doing. One of the most paralyzingly terrifying things I can think of is being on a radio transmission tower or some other tall structure where there's nothing beneath me but the ground.
:scared: :scared: :scared:

[madeline_con]

11. No way. No how.

Same here on the window seat of a plane, though. That's so strange, but true.

[u4ic]

12. Hell, I could

look at that pic and get paid for it. Full or part time? :D

[usedtobesick]

13. I used to jump out of planes and change bulbs on tall towers

this would be a blast!

[underpants]

24. Wow you reallly had to be quick about it didn't you?

:bounce:

[Craig3410]

14. If there's lots of harnesses, maybe. -nt-

[fizzgig]

15. unlike most of you

my fear of heights extends to planes as well...to the point that several doses of anti-anxiety meds don't work

i have a hard time coping with high places and no control

so in answer to your question

cram it

[neweurope]

16. Waaaaaaaahh!!!

Get dizzy just looking at it!

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[China_cat]

17. I had a doctor explain that to me once

because I have the same fear...but love to fly. Anyway, he told me that it has to do with what your brain considers the 'ground'. In an airplane, the floor of the plane becomes the 'ground' and, even if you know you're 35,000 ft in the air you're still grounded. Now, if you tried climbing a ladder inside that plane at 35,000 ft, you'd find the fear returning.

So now you can raspberry those who try to tell you that your 'fear of heights' must be a ploy for attention since you can fly with no problems.

[Lochloosa]

18. There is one (two) things missing from this pic

Parachutes!

[bridgit]

19. yes, on a dare i could most definitely but...um...

so long as looking down is not part of the job :scared:

[ET Awful]

20. Coooool. Do I get a parachute so I can BASE jump off the building

afterward? :P

[samplegirl]

21. hell no

anything higher than the step ladder and my legs
are shaking.

[LaraMN]

22. Not a chance in hell.

I get scared in glass elevators.

[RebelOne]

23. My son has a similar job.

He installs glass on high-rise buildings.

[underpants]

25. Yeah

No fear of heights plus they are tethered. Very safe. Cold but safe

[LizW]

26. Just looking at the picture makes my legs ache. n/t