[Vysero]

TBH I get 90% of my work done in the first 4-5 hours at work and then my productivity drops of significantly. When I was an independent roofing contractor me and my employees only worked in good conditions and only worked 4 days a week. I always paid them for 40 hours. I did really well as an independent contractor despite the offset in time.

[shaklee3]

Do you mind me asking why you got off of it? Housing downturn?

[dillonmckay]

Not OP, but that is quite a physically demanding job with alot of time in the sun.

[blotter_paper]

Bad on the back and knees, high risk of falling, strokes from heat for older roofers, and the careless ones start throwing hammers around. (I'm not a roofer, but used to be a jack of all trades that sometimes did roofing alongside actual roofers.)

[magashna]

No one wants to roof forever. It's hard and dangerous.

[Vysero]

Yes as other have stated the profession is rather hard on your body. I suffered some serious back problems as a result of the manual labor and decided to peruse my interests in engineering instead.