[brewtide]

Worked for a res. Electrician for 6 years. It is often a pretty decent physical gig: drilling holes, pulling wire for days, climbing up under over every book you can think of. Someone else mentioned ground rods (relatively infrequent but), digging trenches for conduit, pulling the wire into the conduit, making up thousands of wires in boxes again and again.

Bending a 200 amp service wire around in a panel is no light task.

As someone who has never been to a gym, but has grown up on a farm and lived a life of mostly trades, it reminds me of all I see written about the different types of working out and how gym can be so different from physical labors conditions where what you are doing may not be a giant lift, or a giant use of force, but you've got to be able to do it for hours a day, back to back to back, day after day.

Our perspectives delude us.

[dieselgate]

Always wondered if city folk would pay for a “construction” workout. Moving around lumber and handling a framing nailer and stuff.

[sno129]

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNxvUrWQ_Q

[lazypenguin]

If they want to have 6-8 hour gym sessions to simulate the real thing then sure.

[itsoktocry]

>Our perspectives delude us.

I'm not deluded at all. I spent a few of my younger years in the oil sands, which definitely convinced me that wasn't something I could or wanted to do forever.

But we seem to be calling anything other than "sitting at a desk doing knowledge work" physically demanding. Maybe it's me, but having physical elements of your job and the job being physically demanding are different things. And when you are out of shape, anything is demanding.