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Stanly Karras
Hurricane Hunter
He say:
Ther's no such thing as an average day in my job!,

Stanly Karras works as a meteorologist in Tampa, florida. It's his Job to follow hurricanes by plane and provide information about them to scientiste.
How did you get the job?

I was working for the National Meteorological Office in Bracknell, near London, in the autumn of 1999, and I saw a documentary film with my family called Stormchasers. It was about harricane hunters and I thought. ' Wow, that's an interesting job!' As it happened, two months later I came across an and in a newspaper for a meteorologist to work in Florida with the same people who had made the film. I applidde, was interviewed over the phone, moved to the US, and started work here in Tampa in may 2000.

What do you like most about it?
I love The travel. Chasing hurricanes has taken me
all over the wprd. It's exciting to end up in different cities and different countries day after day. If you're a meteorologist, you have to love flying. Ialso love working with top scientists. I,ve learned so much from them and we've had a lot of exciting times together. for me. it' like a classroom in the sky.


There's no such thing as an average day in my job! It all depends on the wether, and you can't control that. It's coment's notice to chase storme. I'm the one who decides whether we fly low thtough a storm. I don't want to take us into a hurricane that could be particularly nasty. nasty. thewe's a lot on my shoulders.

Have you made any sacrifices to this job?
Yes, one big one. I'm so far away from my family. They all live in the UK. My wife's with me. of course, but her family is also in the UK, so we're pretty cut off from them all over here.

what would you like to do next?
I'd like to join a space. but I haven't come up with an experiment to do in space yet. There aren't any hurricanes!

What advice would you give to someone who wanted to do your job?
Stud maths and science and get a degree in meteorology. There are many areas in meteorology to study. I've taken the hurricane hunter path, but you could be a weather forecaster or do research in other areas. It's a fascinating subject and the pay's pretty good.




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Michael Doyle-
Cow boy
in the sky
He say:
Many of today's ironworkers are descendants of the men who built New York's fiest skyscrapers.
Michael Doyle is an ironworker in New York City . He,s one of 100 or ironworkers currently employed by Boston Properties to erect the steel frame of a new 40-storey buliding in Time Square. These ironworkers are knowo as ' cowboys in the sky '

How did you get the job?

Ironwork is a trade that is sill handed down from father to son. Many of today's ironworkers are descendants of the men who built New York's first skyscrapers. My great-grandfather was lrish. He come over from Ireland in 1930 to work on the construction of the Empire State Building. My father and grandfather were also ironworkers. My father did it for 40 years. I've never wanted to do any other job.

What do you like most about it?
To me, ironworkers are the kings of construction. We make the skeleton that the other workers build on. We have real pride in our work - you look at the New York hard,we play hard.ironworkers have to get on well together. We depend on each other for our lives so we can't fall out. Oh, and the pay is good!

what's an average day like?
You never stop in this job. Eight hours a day, fromseven in the morning until there in the afternoon. You're moving all the crane lifts the iron girdres, and you have to catch and move them into place. There's always danger. It 's a fact of life for us.

Have you made any sacrifices to this job?
Yes, one big one - physical health. The wear and tear to body is enoromous. I've fallen there times. My father fell two storeys. lost a finger, and beoke his ankles. He needed tow new knees when he retired.

what would you like to do next?
I'd like to help put up a really important building like my great- grandfather did. And I'd like to travel. I'd like to see some of the world's tallest buildings, such as the petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and the word's tallest, the Burj al-Arab in Dubi . I'd love to see that.

What advice would you give to someone who wanted to do your job?
You need to be strong, really strong. You have to Ok with height. It usually takes about a year to get used to it.Many guys who look strong and want to earn good money try it once, but then give up.It's just too frightening






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