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I have done all kinds of jobs too, and I will take a programming/middle management job (no matter how soulless) over a 14 h, or even 8, physical job, every sing
by cambalache 7y ago
I have done all kinds of jobs too, and I will take a programming/middle management job (no matter how soulless) over a 14 h, or even 8, physical job, every single time. Most of the blue-collar workers will tell you the same. Your skin suffers, your knees suffer, your lower-back suffers, honestly I doubt you have done it for a long time, it is people in that category who naively fantasize about how cool is to work 14 h under the sun or in a plant/warehouse/construction site.
- csallen 7y agoSecond this. I barely made it a week at a construction site when I was younger, and I was convinced the experienced shaved a few months off of my life expectancy. I was also just as exhausted coming home from work as I would be from an equivalent amount of time spent thinking about hard mental problems. At least for me, it wasn't even in the same universe as sitting down in an air-conditioned office and writing code all day.