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How Canberra's window cleaners get high.
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00:00I've always liked climbing heights. I grew up, my parents and my sister used to always call me like monkey girl. I just would be climbing anything. So when I found out about the job, I was like, that's so cool and that's what I want to do.
00:12I used to work in childcare and five years and I was just, I just wanted to be outside and use my hands and do something. I used to work with my dad plastering. So I have a bit of construction background and I didn't want to do a trade. So I didn't want to be in like a four year apprenticeship. And my sister one day, she was like, what about those people that come and clean my buildings? And I never, never knew the job existed.
00:38I've never been afraid of heights per se, more cautious, I suppose, afraid of falling. But in this job, you have to have so much trust in your gear that it almost deletes the fear of heights because you know, logically, nothing can really happen. You've got, you've always got two points of contact and your backup. So if anything fails, you always have a safety.
01:05What's the highest you work? 100 meters. We don't have anything taller in Canberra. Unfortunately, if I could, um, sell the Burj Khalifa or a skyscraper, that would be like my dream.
01:16I think it'd be so cool to just be hanging so far up that the ground below you is just like so tiny.
01:23Cool.
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