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This installment is devoted to a man who gets high for a living. No, not in the drugged up way, but, literally -- high in the air to inspect and repair the clock tower at UC Berkeley.

It's hard to understand the magnitude of Jim Phelan's job until you are standing on the ledge, literally. Are you afraid of heights? Well, this profession is certainly not for the faint of heart.

SLIDESHOW: See Jim Phelan's Pictures

My photographer, John, and I met Jim Phelan on the job at the University of California at Berkeley clock tower, also known as the Campanile. We had to take an elevator up 200 feet and climb a narrow winding staircase to get to the tower's observation deck. Jim met us there by repelling 100-feet down to the side of the building to hang out with us.

Moving Pictures Goes To Great Heights

What his pictures don't capture is a part of Jim's personality you wouldn't expect. He's very calm. He's very nice. He's very normal.

He's not a thrill seeker. He does this job because his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather did this job.

He does this job because everyone has to make a living somehow.

Like I said in the story, for someone's who's always got his head in the clouds, he's actually very down to earth.