Not to minimize the risk to health in blue collar jobs, but I’ve done some, and if you reduced that risk to be similar to office jobs and equalized the pay, I’d

Not to minimize the risk to health in blue collar jobs, but I’ve done some, and if you reduced that risk to be similar to office jobs and equalized the pay, I’d pick them over office work, no question. Now, that’s some big “if”s, but all I mean is that some aspects of office work are in fact pretty bad. A couple weeks into my wife starting a “cushy” standard knowledge work office job with a fairly typical level of demand for actual work (i.e. not all that much, really), coming from one that kept her on her feet and constantly busy and thinking, she said something like: “oh wow, now I get why you’re always so drained at the end of every day”. Staring at a computer all day sucks. That doesn’t mean I’d rather be doing roofing, all factors considered, but it does suck.