[antidaily]

"you should just get a real job instead, like become a banker or an investor or a consultant or something"

yeah, consulting. the pie-eating contest where the prize is more pie. but at least you have a nice salary to pay back your MBA student loans. and you get to travel every week and get fat eating out every meal and drinking at networking events.

[eli_gottlieb]

In direct contrast to software jobs, where you can stay very healthy by spending an hour in the gym every day after sitting in a cubicle for your 10-hour workday.

[dasil003]

If you eat well and go to the gym for an intense (ie. not just jogging on the treadmill) 1-hour workout every day, I think you'll be in quite decent shape.

[eli_gottlieb]

Actually, no. Sitting for large periods of time, past a certain age as I remember, is simply harmful to your health. You can't "make it up" with exercise later in the day.

[dasil003]

You don't make it up the negative effect of sitting, but you'll be in generally better shape, perhaps by a greater margin than someone who never sits but also never gets any strenuous exercise.

[carguy1983]

A good way to start a career, not a very good way to live though.