Jobs That's Take Your Breath Away

Jobs That's Take Your Breath Away - "Wind can stop your heart," Richard Capozzi says. "It has a lot more strength than people think. It catches your seat and pushes you. It can lift you up, swing you left, right or spin you around, and tangle your ropes. That's when you get down." Throughout the years, he's developed a sixth sense for bad weather.

Jobs That's Take Your Breath Away - High Rise Building Window Cleaner: On a cold day, the wind can be pretty biting when you're 22 stories up on the outside of a building. At least that's what Richard Capozzi says. And he'd know. The veteran window cleaner has served as owner and operator of New Haven County Window Cleaners LLC, a high- and low-rise building window cleaning service, for almost two decades.

It's an occupation to be taken seriously, he said. It requires competency, and ingenuity along with a healthy dose of controlled fear. "There's no such thing as 'afraid,' " he explained. "Each time you calculate your equipment, everything you're using, everything you hook up, it helps control the fear."

Wearing a plethora of safety equipment and attached to a lifeline, he and his crew perform controlled descents down the side of high rise buildings in what's known as a bosun's chair to do the obvious: clean windows.

And it's not just with a bottle of Windex and a handful of paper towels. Sometimes the windows have 10 years' worth of grime and oxidation, which requires chemical applications and repeated cleanings to restore them to their original splendor.

The gig is largely weather-dependent, and if the wind is blowing greater than 15 to 20 mph, the crew doesn't go out. But sometimes, there are unexpected gusts, much like rogue waves on the ocean. And when they occur, according to Capozzi, it's more than a little spooky.

"Wind can stop your heart," he said. "It has a lot more strength than people think. It catches your seat and pushes you. It can lift you up, swing you left, right or spin you around, and tangle your ropes. That's when you get down."

It's not a job where you take risks, he said, especially because he's not only responsible for himself, but also for the other members of his cleaning crew. Throughout the years, he's developed a sixth sense for bad weather. "You can almost feel it in your bones when you've done it for so long; you know it's coming."

Capozzi said the best part of his job is the sense of accomplishment he gets when he's completed a challenging project. "When the job is done, you turn around and the sun shines on that building, so you see the before and after and it's sort of like, I win. I did it. And then I point to the building and say, 'See you next year, buddy.' " 

UK Graduates Forced To Work As Window Cleaners

Oh.. The shock & horror - UK graduates FORCED to take "elementary jobs" such as window cleaning. This article in typical Daily Mail sensation garbage news.

Graduates forced to take jobs as window cleaners and road sweepers - and 20,000 are unemployed SIX MONTHS after leaving university. Recent graduates are being forced to take jobs as road sweepers, window cleaners and office juniors, in a sign of increasing desperation in the job market. Figures published today showed 20,000 students were unemployed six months after getting their degrees, with men more likely to be out of work than women. Thousands more graduates took jobs that do not require a degree.

• Nearly one student in ten was unemployed six months after graduating.
• Women graduates fare better than men in the job market, data suggest.
• But two-thirds of graduates still make it into 'professional' occupations.

Overall, 20,415 UK and EU full-time university leavers were assumed to be unemployed after completing their first degree in 2011/12, according to data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). That's nearly one graduate in ten still languishing in his or her old bedroom. On face value this is around the same proportion as last year, although HESA warned that the latest figures are not directly comparable with previous years due to changes in the way they are collected.

Three years study for this? Around 9,695 graduates were working in 'elementary occupations', taking jobs as hospital porters, waiters, bartenders, road sweepers, window cleaners and shelf stackers.

Women are faring better than men in the job market, the data suggest. More than one in 10 (10.9 per cent) of male graduates whose whereabouts were known six months after they finished their first degree were jobless, compared to 7.2 per cent of women. The HESA statistics also look at the types of jobs graduates were in after gaining their degree. More than a third of new graduates working in the UK were in 'non-professional' jobs that did not necessarily require a degree, the most recent figures showed.

Around 9,695 people were working in 'elementary occupations', taking jobs as office juniors, hospital porters, waiters, bartenders, road sweepers, window cleaners, shelf stackers and lollipop men and women. Rising numbers were working in factories and sales and customer services. In total, 745 were working in factories or plants, against 720 last year, while 21,025 were working in roles such as sales assistant, caretaker, market trader and call centres. Last year this figure stood at 20,675.

But the largest group - 54,435 people, or nearly two-thirds of those graduates whose fate had been discovered - were in the graduate job level group described as 'professional occupations'. This includes vets, dentists, pharmacists, engineers, teachers and solicitors. Professor Michael Gunn, chair of the university group million+ and vice-chancellor of Staffordshire University said: 'Six months is a relatively short time to make a judgement about the value of getting a degree and the occupations which graduates will enter in the future. 'However, these statistics confirm that even in a very difficult labour market studying for a degree on a full-time or a part-time basis remains one of the best ways of securing employment and a career.'

Occupation Window Cleaning - Banks Greed

Stevenage window cleaner in St Paul’s sit-in: James Albury, 34, of Stevenage has been camping out for “four or five” nights in the week to draw attention to what he said is a government “corruption” of capitalism. The former Heathcote School student said the media has misinterpreted the occupation - arguing it is part of a “movement” rather than an anti-capitalist protest - despite banners to the contrary around the site. He said: “It’s hard to encapsulate what the occupation movement is in a few sentences, but from my own perspective, I am a self-employed window cleaner – describing the occupation as some sort of anti-capitalist movement is not correct. “The idea that it is just a load of lazy students is just not right.

“I’m not anti-capitalist. I’m against this corrupt form of capitalism. If my business were to fail I couldn’t go to the government and get a bail out. I can see no reason why a great big corporate bank cannot be allowed to fail. If they made poor decisions you cannot expect the tax payer to bail them out.” He added that Stevenage could soon see a similar occupation. “I have spoken to lots of people. There is support for it,” he said.

FDIC closes four banks. Annual total: 84 so far. A window washer is reflected in the window of the office building which used to house a branch office of Firstier Bank in southeast Denver, last month. The downturn in real estate and high unemployment has caused the FDIC to close Firstier and 83 other banks so far this year.

A nice video below to explain money creation & the reason we are experiencing this "credit crunch." It starts around the 2 minute mark & the following parts are auto-played without having to hunt for the next video link. The video has been made for a foreign T.V. channel, so the speaker talks slower for the translators. This is how "they" control governments, businesses and the general population, by creating enormous debt. Vital to this has been to allow bankers to lend money they do not have. It works like this. If you or me have a million pounds, we can lend a million pounds. Very simple. But if a bank has a million pounds it can lend ten times that and more, and charge interest on it. If even a fraction of the people who theoretically have 'money' deposited in the banks went today to remove it, the banks would slam the doors in half an hour because they do not have it. Money in the bank is a myth, just a confidence trick.

Whats My Line?

What's My Line? The show was initially called Occupation Unknown. The original series, which was usually broadcast live, debuted in 1950 & the panel attempted to determine the line (occupation), or in the case of a famous "mystery guest", the identity of the contestant. It was a weekly panel game show which ran from 1950-1967 whose objective was to guess the unusual occupations of contestants. It is the longest-running game show in the history of prime time network television. Hosted by John Charles Daly.

Unknown to the public, mystery guests were paid $500 as an appearance fee, whether they won or lost the game. This was in addition to the maximum $50 game winnings, which guests sometimes donated to charity. Guest panelists were paid $750 as an appearance fee.