Originally Posted by
yellowbastard
I think our Generation will have it pretty bad. Growing up on video games, and working in cubicals all day won't pay off in the long run. Not to mention all the Supersized Combo Meal's and larger meal portions in general.
I have to give that to you, I've worked at jobs that were hard work. I humped wheelbarrows full of concrete for 12 hours a day on one job, (building Grain Elevators) working from 7PM til 7AM got to see the sunset and the sunrise. I've lumberjacked, commercial fished, lots of construction oriented work. I had a sign painting business and I've done sign installations for a sign making company. I had a Kitchen and Bath Remodeling business. I worked in the hotel industry for 20 years or so, first as a maintenance man and then as a Chief Engineer, Director of Maintenance & Engineering where I did budgeting and scheduling of all the work for the facilities that I worked at, but I would always walk the entire property every day and check in on my employees to see that they were doing their jobs and if they needed anything.
When I was remodeling it was nothing for me to carry a couple hundred pounds at a time, I didn't even think about how heavy anything was until I would see someone struggling to pick up something that I just set down. My son (soon to be 27) and I would carry, not bounce a 400# plus cast iron tub up stairs in clients houses, so as not to damage the stairs, and I would be at the bottom because I didn't want my son getting hurt.