Oh 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

Oh 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).