Is Treework Addictive?

[blue]

Is this job like a drug,i think it is.I have bugger all climbing work at the moment and am workin for my bro as a labourer.The money is the same,the job easier and safer but i would drop it like a stone when a climbing job comes up.I'm really missing it at the moment i need that buzz back:D

[madclimber]

Yeah id agree, i love it especially the climbing side of it. I dont mind doing ground work but i soon get itchy feet

[Steve Bullman]

i find groundwork extremely tedious these days, and sometimes even feel a bit lost on the ground

[Guest Matthew Norman]

I don't know whether treework is addictive, but I sure love the climbing about in trees part. Come the weekend when I'm not working I sometimes can't wait to get back up there... and when I'm away on holidays wifey gets annoyed at me looking at foreign trees and wondering how the best way to ascend it would be! Yes... yes, I am a sad c*nt.

[RPA]

I started climbing 25 years ago then left the industry because I could not get a mortgage when self employed. After years of being asked to do jobs for old clients I am eventually going back into it. Whilst I know I’m too old, too slow and my body is half knackered it’s the best thing I have ever done.

 

I will eventually be leaving behind a secure £30K+/year job and a pension, but being happy with your life and what you do is worth more than the material things in life.

 

Yes it is addictive.

[Mr Ed]

Maybe - but I can give it up anytime if I wanted too

[RPA]

Maybe - but I can give it up anytime if I wanted too

 

And totally leave the industry for ever?

[Mr Ed]

nah, not really. It gets in your blood this job.

[Peter]

I'm not sure I could ever really be happy doing anything else. And I have tried other things!

[raafbeard]

I say yes too...encouraged so many of you feel the same..