This is the only one that I risked my career for. Not my photography career… my actual day job was on the line here. One that I went to school for, one that I had for over half a decade. I was an IT guy for a local printer company and I was doing an install on the 7th floor for a company that had just moved in the building - one of the first to do so. Meaning that much of the building was still empty, including the top two floors which were still being finished.
Now don’t get me wrong any trespassing charge would have been a bad look to my employer but one on company time!? Come on man. Couldn’t afford to slip up on this one. But this was a ONCE-IN-A-LIFER.
So when I completed setting up everyone’s scan to email feature on their shiny new copier, I headed over to the elevators… but instead of hitting the down arrow, I chose UP instead. If anyone comes around that corner their gonna ask how the fuck I managed to press the wrong button out of two options. I FELT SO ALIVE.
The top floors were finished enough, and it was around quitting time for the day so I made my way through. I hit both floors, the little balcony thing that looks out towards the westside, and BOTH roofs. The feeling on the very top was bittersweet because it was SO spectacular, the true heart of the city, but I had to be REALLY quick. I was so exposed. I was visible to anyone still working in Alliant facing west and to everyone going home on the S-curve. Surely one of them will mistake me as suicidal and send the SWAT team up to deal with the situation. So I had to be quick and stealthy.
