[csallen]

I'm a software engineer, but I worked a construction job once while I was young. I barely lasted a week.

The job was to help with building a hotel during a sweltering hot summer in Georgia. I'd be soaked in sweat before noon. We spent all day carrying heavy pieces of drywall up and down rickety staircases that somehow never collapsed, injuring our fingers, stepping on rusty nails, walking through rooms full of brightly colored dust and gas with no masks on, etc. I felt like I'd cut into my lifespan after just a few days. My whole body hurt by the time I got home, and I was so exhausted I couldn't do anything else.

Construction work can be simple, sure. But it's not easy.

[your-nanny]

I get irritated by people who complain when they see construction workers (or similar) standing around. They underestimate just how hard their work is on their bodies