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The thing that always gets left out of these pro-trade articles is how brutal it is on your body. It is HARD work Most older tradies I know have a lot of pain

• rootusrootus 4y ago
  This is very true, I've talked to so many contractors doing work for me who were in their 20s and already had back problems far worse than anything I've yet experienced (and I haven't been 20-anything for decades). To a rough approximation, all of them. I did meet an older plumber, though. I asked him about it and he said his trick was that he only did new construction, no repair. Much easier work. On the occasion he had to do any re-work, his son did it.
• knallfrosch 4y ago
  They also seem to have odd hours more often, regularely work on the side after-hours and on the weekend, and medicate themselves with amounts of caffeine, nicotine and alcohol that would kill horses. That is not to say it's the persons' fault. But if you can tolerate these jobs only like that, it tells you something about the work.
• Tangurena2 4y ago
  Falling off a roof, or off a ladder, can be a "career ending move". I used to be a car mechanic (and electronic technician). That ended when I got run over by a car. I no longer bend too well in the middle - not enough to crawl under a dashboard or car. While I was recovering, my company needed some stuff done that I felt needed to be computerized: one customer was stealing $18k-30k per year because our shipping/receiving system was terribly flawed. Of course it was my fault for pointing that out.