Job security but I’d think it gets hard when you get older.

I’ve got 2 brothers who worked with ropes but that was in difficult access. Both were keen rock climbers (and Tim at one time was amongst the best in the UK) so I suppose it was a natural job choice for them.

Tim went on to being a director in a difficult access company before moving out to Australia. I think he does still climb at a little bit at his daughters place. She inherited her fathers taste for climbing and, together with her partner opened up a bouldering gym in Queensland.

Paul works at an oil refinery now. He started off on ropes, etc. on the inspection side but he now has an office job in safety/inspection. Before that, one of the biggest jobs Paul worked on was the repair of the Nat West Tower after it was bombed. I think they used a platform the went round the whole building for that one.