4 ms·
When I was young I did agency employment for a few years between leaving school and figuring out what I wanted to do. A lot of that was in warehouses (I also w
by noir_lord 7y ago
When I was young I did agency employment for a few years between leaving school and figuring out what I wanted to do.
A lot of that was in warehouses (I also worked in greenhouses harvesting cucumbers 45C and 100% humidity, a paint factory moving 15l paint tins all day - never eaten so much or been so fit, 15l tins of bitumen are heavy to handball all day, steel plant that powder coated so hot tanks of acid and full PPE and a cardboard box factory) and almost nothing I’ve read about amazon surprises me much.
Warehouse work is often physically demanding and rote, same thing over and over again, I never had a problem with that because I’d just go on autopilot and the day would pass in a blur - never had an issue with hard work and got multiple full time offers, I’ve always been a naturally hard worker, I always figured I’m here for 8-12 hours day goes faster when you are busy.
It was an interesting experience and after moving into enterprise software development served me really well when it came to producing things operatives actually got a benefit from.
It also makes me think that TUI’s with shortcut keys are often massively more efficient than a pretty GUI but I digress.
- heymijo 7y ago> never had an issue with hard work Very similar boat as you when I was younger. Lots of physical labor. No big deal when you're young. Extrapolate that out to a decade, two decades, or an entire career and I bet we would both be singing a different tune.
- noir_lord 7y agoOh I'm sure, some of those jobs would break you if you did them for a decade or two, it's why I got into programming after training as an industrial electrician, I looked at the guys I was working with who where 20-30 years older than me (40-50) and they where messed up so I took a different path. Again though I don't regret it, the training was useful and it taught me life skills that are applicable to software engineering (though the stakes are a little lower when not working with 11kV systems).
- jacquesm 7y agoSame here. Every day I am grateful that I can earn a large multiple of my former living by just sitting behind a desk.