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A job that takes you to new heights

By KARE 11 Staff Writer
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Updated: 3 years ago

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Jim Guentzel readily admits he gets high on the job, really high.

Guentzel works for Tri-State Communication Services and changes light bulbs at the very top of television towers.

Those light bulbs are more than 1/4 of a mile up in the sky, and while the view from his "office" is spectacular, it's not one many people could be paid to see.

And Guentzel is paid $600 a day to climb to the top of the world, secured only by his harness.

The climb does take the better part of a day. Guentzel goes straight up, reattaching his harness cables with each new rung.

Ken Speake will have more on Guentzel's unusual job in KARE 11's 6 p.m. newscast.




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