Unusual Jobs: Window washers – Thu, 11 Sep 2014 PST

One thing is for certain: High-rise window washing is not a job foreveryone.

Eric Katzer said he can tell by the way job candidates walk across a roof whether they are cut out for it or not. Katzer owns and operates WestCoast Window Cleaning, a window washing company that cleans windows on tall downtown buildings like the U.S. Courthouse, the downtown post office, the Spokane Arena and on this particular day, Rock Pointe CorporateCenter.

And some applicants just kind of go wobbly when they get up here, Katzer said, while standing on the roof of Rock Pointe

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Mark Rutkowsky, above, and Eric Katzer hang off a building at Rock Pointe Aug. 27. The two regularly rappel off the roofs of buildings to clean windows aroundSpokane. (Full-size photo)

One thing is for certain: High-rise window washing is not a job foreveryone.

Eric Katzer said he can tell by the way job candidates walk across a roof whether they are cut out for it or not. Katzer owns and operates WestCoast Window Cleaning, a window washing company that cleans windows on tall downtown buildings like the U.S. Courthouse, the downtown post office, the Spokane Arena and on this particular day, Rock Pointe CorporateCenter.

And some applicants just kind of go wobbly when they get up here, Katzer said, while standing on the roof of Rock Pointe. The worst thing that can happen is that they dont tell us how scared they are before they go over the side of thebuilding.

Katzer got into the business when he was about 16 because he needed work and a friends father owned a window washing company. And today, roughly 30 years later, its still what he does for aliving.

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