• empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Also that construction worker: has bad back, bad knees, arthritic hands and skin cancer at age 42

    Don’t get me wrong the trades are amazing for a kid to get into right out of school, and they’re critically necessary. But don’t be expecting to make a lifelong career out of it, because it is absolutely hard on your body. Do it for 5 years max and move up to management.

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      There are less intense trades. Sure, a bricklayer and drywaller is gonna be hurting after ten years, but telco, electronic security, automation, and fire alarm trades are quite sustainable and offer technical challenges often to keep things interesting. You just need to be okay with heights. We use scissor lifts quite a bit.

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      Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with being a construction worker. It’s a super important and useful career. But it is hard work and it’ll chew you up, then you’re left not being able to work at all.

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    The implication is not that it doesn’t pay well, it’s that it’s dangerous and very hard on your body. Work as a construction worker till your 50 (if you don’t die in an accident before then) and your body will hate you for it

  • LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, sure, destroy your body for $75k. Hope you like working with drug addicts, and I don’t mean the good ones; poor people have cheap drugs

    Meanwhile, other people are making $120k using Linux, and without having a degree.

    Rolling out of bed can be dangerous if you WFH. Make sure you don’t log into your work PC during the first hour after waking up. Go for a walk around your neighborhood first.