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World's scariest job

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I think scary is relative. I have climbed crazy cliffs and can sleep in a sling hanging off a piece of metal wedged in rock. This seems similar.

However, I am scared of heights in other ways. People may be fine with balconies in skyrises, but sometimes I get really freaked out being on them. Strangely with apartment buildings but not hotels. I have no idea why.

I also don't like standing on the edge of cliffs unless my hands are touching a rock.

I think scary varies with height and everyone else person to person.

(Edit: that should be "heights," but I'll leave it as, as short people are scary.)
 
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I used to get piles of letters from schoolchildren who had attended shows I'd helped to organize. One of them said we needed more railings in the balconies, and the seats were too close to the edge, and maybe the floor was not that solid, and other students in the class almost died because they kept looking over the railings. The picture evoked a feeling of looking down into the depths of hell. This poor child had apparently been sitting there shaking from fear the entire performance. I felt awful. Ushers got a little extra training that week.
 
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There is a conference room in one of the taller buildings in town that has a glass floor about five feet from the edge of the glass window/wall looking out over the city. There is nothing below the glass floor but air. It freaks some people out so much that they will not even walk anywhere near it or look down.

Now, if I was that guy climbing that tower, what would scare the shit out of me would be to hear thunder in the distance.
 
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Gatorubet;1775236; said:
There is a conference room in one of the taller buildings in town that has a glass floor about five feet from the edge of the glass window/wall looking out over the city. There is nothing below the glass floor but air. It freaks some people out so much that they will not even walk anywhere near it or look down.

Now, if I was that guy climbing that tower, what would scare the shit out of me would be to hear thunder in the distance.
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I would be fine with that height because there is a wall, even if it is glass. While this makes no logical sense, as a balcony with a five foot cement wall isn't going to seem me flying over it, for some reason the fear for me comes from feeling like I am hanging off the building and not in control.

We all have some natural fear of falling, I think, innate to being human. Some of us simply conquer it perhaps, while some of us retain more of the primal fear, and in different ways. . .

Anyway, I can think of scarier jobs:

Rosie O'Donnel's OB/GYN
Canoe guide in West Virginia (think banjos, though that movie was actually set in Georgia or something)
Lead actor in Dirty Dancing (too soon?)
Chris Brown's wife
Jewish pool boy for Mel Gibson
 
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Gatorubet;1775236; said:
There is a conference room in one of the taller buildings in town that has a glass floor about five feet from the edge of the glass window/wall looking out over the city. There is nothing below the glass floor but air. It freaks some people out so much that they will not even walk anywhere near it or look down.

Now, if I was that guy climbing that tower, what would scare the shit out of me would be to hear thunder in the distance.
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Ghost Bar @ the Palms in Vegas has something like that on their patio. I think the pool is what you see through the floor
 
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