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I’d love to do manual labor as long as: I have a decent house, decent health insurance, can afford decent food/stuff, can afford taking sabbaticals, can afford
by sdevonoes 6mo ago
I’d love to do manual labor as long as: I have a decent house, decent health insurance, can afford decent food/stuff, can afford taking sabbaticals, can afford getting sick and not losing my income, can afford decent education for kids, etc.
Unfortunately, many of us are chained to the modern way of life.
- aledevv 6mo ago@sdevonoes What do you do for work? ps: Unfortunately I agree with you.
- teruakohatu 6mo agoDon’t forget doing only enough manual labour not to get hurt, killed or develop a chronic condition. You can make a lot of money doing many skilled manual jobs in my country. Trades are highly paid and there is not enough supply. Better money than software development. They often wreck their backs, or develop other chronic conditions. The successful ones stop doing manual work by the time they are in their 40s and move to running their own businesses employing 20 year olds. A friend of mine just lost a family member a few weeks ago. He slipped on a roof.
- aledevv 6mo ago@teruakohatu Some example of manual labor well payed in your country? In Italy, sometime manual labors are more safe than others not manual jobs. This is because often the rules and laws protects still human instead the profits.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoYou don't have to @ their name here on HN, it doesn't work like Twitter. When you reply to them they'll see it already.
- AnimalMuppet 6mo agoOnly if they go back through their threads.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoOr they use something like https://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/ which many do. In any case the @ doesn't work regardless, it does not ping anyone.
- teruakohatu 6mo agoForestry is well paid in NZ, the average forester is probably better paid than the average developer. Although the ceiling for software devs is much higher. But Forestry also has the highest number of industrial accidents. We have a strong health and safety regime and culture. Most primary industries are heavily automated. Yet it only takes a simple mistake to cause injury.
- selimthegrim 6mo agoIs this New Zealand? Don't all the software people migrate to Australia for better wages?
- teruakohatu 6mo agoMany do go overseas. They would definitely get paid more in Australia. But New Zealand is a pleasant place to live.
- troupo 6mo agoYou don't want manual labor that you unfortunately cannot do due to being "chained to the modern life". You want a modern life with some light manual labor on the side as a hobby.