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How do you like physical labor for a living?

Do you prefer physical labor to mental? (Assume equal pay.)

  • I prefer physical labor.

    Votes: 13 33.3%
  • I prefer physical labor only if my workmates are of similar physique to me.

    Votes: 2 5.1%
  • I prefer mental labor only if my workmates are of similar mental capacity to me.

    Votes: 4 10.3%
  • I prefer mental labor.

    Votes: 20 51.3%

  • Total voters
    39
I am far from being idle. The trustees got people who assembled my curriculum, which centers around learning how people think (I guess), even though my favorite subjects are the maths and piano classes, not where some teacher pushes the statistics of right/wrong answers off a million sigmas by his own personality when grading me. My curriculum builds on learning many languages, which is why I live in different countries every year.



I am not wealthy, the trustees control all my accounts till I get 18. They check the receipts of everything I buy, they control my cash limits, they review my schedules, ... . But I can't complain, they have been reasonable with me. They provide me VPN for work/games, approve me to go for invitations, they even overlooked a few of my fibs too when I really wanted to go out with a girl. As long as I get grades that they approve of and I keep my lunch appointments at church when requested.



No I am not deluded (I hope), only I am afraid of people's inflated attitudes about work. Luckily nobody at this forum has that attitude. I kinda agree with the rest of your post, but that is all their fault, they forget what they are, that in essence it is out of the grace of the Lord that they are what they are, and not because of whatever they think. I usually remind them when they bitch (showing my absolute arrogance) to re-read Ephesians 2:10 which goes like we all do what (the Lord has) prepared for us IN ADVANCE to work at. They deserve their decline, they forgot that the Lord put them in charge of the land for the purpose of being a good host for the prosperity of that land (not themselves).



What do you mean working for someone else as "work" as opposed to not working for someone else as "work"?

Trustees giving you an allowance until you are 18?

lol never mind dude you live in a fantasy world that is not relevant at to our reality.
 
The obesity epidemic is dominant at the lower echelons of society, therefore it is reasonable to correlate that with their cash flow and derivative lifestyle.


Do you know why?

The cheapest foods tend to be high-carb and fattening if you eat a lot of it.

Beans, rice, gravy, cheap fatty meats, cheap microwave dinners... the fresh foods and lean meats cost more, and a lot of poor people can't AFFORD a healthy diet.
 
I am not wealthy, the trustees control all my accounts till I get 18. They check the receipts of everything I buy, they control my cash limits, they review my schedules, ... . But I can't complain, they have been reasonable with me. They provide me VPN for work/games, approve me to go for invitations, they even overlooked a few of my fibs too when I really wanted to go out with a girl. As long as I get grades that they approve of and I keep my lunch appointments at church when requested.


Trustees and 18 aside, it certainly sounds like you are what most people would call "wealthy"... or at least, "financially indepedent".

Most people don't get trust funds.

Most people have no choice about getting a job, it is "root, hog, or die!"
 
I prefer a mixture of the two, myself.


Actually I prefer to deal with deadly dangerous **** nobody else wants to fool with, most of all.
 
I present for you viewing pleasure mining tycoon Gina Rinehart the richest woman in the world...:lol: The world is filled with rich upper echelon obese people.
... she smote my eye....:wink2:

My statement was statistical but in this case it is indeed obvious that this specimen is a perfect bio experiment with the cross-breeding of people and pigs. Sorry, I have to apologize to the pigs. (I dare not even re-quote her picture.)
 
Trustees giving you an allowance until you are 18?

lol never mind dude you live in a fantasy world that is not relevant at to our reality.

And I thought that I was the one with the attitude problem. HAHAHAHAHA

There was a program sometime that featured lottery winners many years after the fact. Almost all of them wished that they had never had won. I think you would be one of them. There is no point for you to have money if you don't understand money.
 
I don't like physical labor at all. The most physical labor I do at my current job is giving shots (unless you count standing for hours physical labor). I much prefer mental labor.
 
Do you know why?

The cheapest foods tend to be high-carb and fattening if you eat a lot of it.

Beans, rice, gravy, cheap fatty meats, cheap microwave dinners... the fresh foods and lean meats cost more, and a lot of poor people can't AFFORD a healthy diet.

Looks like the globalization of food markets is the same trend as any other market from the consumers' point of view. I must speculate then, that maybe this is the way that the human race is bringing itself to extinction. (Faster than any war HAHAHA.)

It is so horrible that this way is so disgusting. At least animals go extinct by starving over their disappearing living environment. That is easier to manage.
 
Beans and potatoes, greens and bread, nuts and olives; good food doesn't cost. Eat a balanced meal (protein/carbs/fat) every 3-4 hours, exercise a little every day, try to take a vitamin once or twice a week, get some raw food and don't forget fruits.
 
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Trustees and 18 aside, it certainly sounds like you are what most people would call "wealthy"... or at least, "financially indepedent".

Most people don't get trust funds.

Most people have no choice about getting a job, it is "root, hog, or die!"

I was thinking about this A LOT.

I guess the best I can come up with so far is that we need to realize that before we consider money, we must consider how to reduce the pain of decay for everything, this idea stolen from Romans 8:20-21 "For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope, that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.".
 
I prefer a mixture of the two, myself.


Actually I prefer to deal with deadly dangerous **** nobody else wants to fool with, most of all.

Explosives and military strategy? I absolutely love these subjects too, especially the latter one.
 
Beans and potatoes, greens and bread, nuts and olives; good food doesn't cost. Eat a balanced meal (protein/carbs/fat) every 3-4 hours, exercise a little every day, try to get and take a vitamin once or twice a week, get some raw food and don't forget fruits.

Yes. Yess. YESSSSSSSS. Why didn't I think of this answer myself? I really like veggies, in all ways prepared. (I guess I am a freak.) The real puzzle is, why can't most people do this? I don't see the prices of the things you list that high anywhere on the net. Is this to do with marketing?
 
I was thinking about this A LOT.

I guess the best I can come up with so far is that we need to realize that before we consider money, we must consider how to reduce the pain of decay for everything, this idea stolen from Romans 8:20-21 "For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope, that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.".
Yyyyyyyyyep, that settles it. I'll stick with Joe Sixpack :shock:
 
Something about physical labor that is enjoyable for the most part. I actually like to sweat from working hard. It's a good feeling. The bad thing is as you age you can't stay at it as long as you once could. That said, I absolutely don't like working in sand.
 
What do you do?


Used to be a cop.... have also done other, crazier things. Had to give it up when the wife bugged out and left me with a 2 yo. Work for the power company at present.
 
I wouldn't mind a job that was medium to light medium physical labor. Most manufacturing jobs tend to be on the heavy side of that though. If I could do something like stock shelves at the grocery store and get paid decently, I would love it.

However, I seem to excel at mental labor. I have a good body (so long as I take humira and can move without pain!) and mind and tend to do pretty well at both, however, I have a capacity for keeping all sorts of information in my head at any given point and have an excellent memory and very fast recall abilities. This works to my disadvantage though since I am less organized than I should be though. I am a natural problem solver and tend to be the type to find a better way to do any task I work on, often very quickly.
 
Used to be a cop.... have also done other, crazier things. Had to give it up when the wife bugged out and left me with a 2 yo. Work for the power company at present.

Come on, man. I'm into this stuff too. Quit holdin out. What was the crazy stuff?
 
I want a job where I don't have to do anything physical. At the moment my job isn't that physical I like that, as cliche as it sounds I don't want to break a nail.

Also, I make more doing way leas than when I did more physical things. That is messed up in my opinion people need to be paid for the fact that these jobs wear out your bodies.
 
definitely prefer a job that requires a bit of both but leans more towards physical labor. It's not as if construction workers and plumbers are robot meatheads, after all. Most jobs involving quote-unquote physical labor will also have some sort of mental or problem-solving aspect to them.

Even using a shovel requires a measure of mental ability, to keep you from burning yourself out.

Since I started my new career, I've had a chance to work with some kids. At one point I was the oldest member of my hitch by 22 years. The second oldest man was 22 and the youngest was 18. This was a wonderful oppurtunity for me, as it answered a lot of questions I've had over the years.

I finally figured out why the younger generation is so lazy: it's because they don't know how to work. I'm constantly showing these boys how to keep from working themselves in the ground, doing the most mindless tasks. It makes me tired to watch them do things absolutely the hardest, least efficient way possible. Blows me away.
 
Even using a shovel requires a measure of mental ability, to keep you from burning yourself out.

Since I started my new career, I've had a chance to work with some kids. At one point I was the oldest member of my hitch by 22 years. The second oldest man was 22 and the youngest was 18. This was a wonderful oppurtunity for me, as it answered a lot of questions I've had over the years.

I finally figured out why the younger generation is so lazy: it's because they don't know how to work. I'm constantly showing these boys how to keep from working themselves in the ground, doing the most mindless tasks. It makes me tired to watch them do things absolutely the hardest, least efficient way possible. Blows me away.

Not to nitpick but there's a difference between being lazy and not knowing how to work efficiently.
 
Not to nitpick but there's a difference between being lazy and not knowing how to work efficiently.

That was my point. People constantly say that kids these days are, "lazy". But, my observation is, they just don't know how to work.

It wouldn't be happening, if there weren't so many regulations preventing teens from getting jobs that involve physical labor. You can't throw someone into the workforce at 18+ y/o, who has never had a job and expect them to know how to work.
 
It wouldn't be happening, if there weren't so many regulations preventing teens from getting jobs that involve physical labor. You can't throw someone into the workforce at 18+ y/o, who has never had a job and expect them to know how to work.

Child labor laws are ruining this country.
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