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>> The first and foremost is working for yourself.
There's nothing like making your own schedule.
Secondly is dealing with the people I meet.
Every day it's a different person, a different attitude and dealing
with the animals, of course, is great.
But it's also satisfaction that you're helping people and wildlife live together in harmony.
The biggest challenge is putting up a 40 foot ladder, climbing on the roof and you're trying
to climb it carrying equipment so that's a safety hazard you have to be very conscious of.
Of course, we drive over 500 miles a day so you have to be very conscious about driving.
Dealing with animals like raccoons, they can be very, very aggressive.
If you have a mother raccoon with babies, she'll go through you to protect her babies.
Of course, the fall factor, falling off a roof or walking
through attics where there's no floor space.
You deal with freezing cold weather, rain, extremely hot weather.
So there's no rhyme or reason to getting on a roof.
If it's a hot day, it's a cold day, it's miserable.
Okay this is considered a knee wall and all along inside here,
there's a soffit where the raccoons have been traveling through the whole perimeter
and raccoons are very dirty so they've been pooping and peeing everywhere.
And there's piles of poop inside this knee wall.
So I've got to cut an access hole into the wall and then we've got to get inside there,
shovel out the fecal matter and then disinfect it.