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> As to which type of job is more "fun" - a construction foreman once told me that he always sees these guys who try working construction to get away from their office job, who try to find meaning/enlightenment through manual labor - a sentiment you hear here a lot - and they always go back to their office job. Always.

Believe you. I've been wet an got electrical shocks from wet equipment more than once on a particular site.

But part of it is probably also that office jobs typically pays better and people find it hard to return to a lower salary.

What I liked best was when I had my own office but lots of trips to install, maintain, upgrade and verify the systems I programmed ;-)