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rope access work 30-May-2007 At 11:36:34 PM n00bpwn3r

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How long is a piece of string?

Rope access work and window cleaning on ropes are 2 different things, both pay shit, but if you can get the work (you got to have the trade skills to get the jobs) it can pay alrite. Being able to abseil into somewhere (aiding in is fractionaly harder) is about 5% of the job, what you can do when you get there is the other 98.5%.

Most access workers do not consider window cleaning to be "real access work". But talk to an access worker who's been doing it for several years and they'll tell you there are easier ways to make a living.

As for qualifications, depends on who your working for and where your working. Washing a few windows for some dodgy operator may be a little slacker than changing a flang gasket on a flair on a rig in the middle of Bass Straight. Make senses?