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Originally Posted by Rathji
I was thinking about this today, and realized that my answer that labour was harder was actually wrong.
If I spend 4-5 years getting a degree, busting my ass off in school to get to the point where I am at now, to be able to sit in a desk to do my job, that counts for something. It really is part of how hard my job is.
To be able to mindlessly hack apart a dead cow is actually pretty simple compared to the work I put into getting where I am.
*disclaimer: My education isn't really totally required (read: complete overkill) for what I do and plan on doing in the near future, but there are many people who this does apply to.
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I've spent days on end picking rocks out of a field on hot, dusty summer days for a few bucks an hour and, more lately, immobile for hours on end behind a desk. Both are tiring but at least the desk job is interesting for the mind.
But I do like going running for a few hours at a time on lonely country roads or taking a hoe out into the field to whack thistleheads on a hot day or shovelling our hundred foot driveway free of snow for no reason in particular. Just the mindlessness of those physical tasks is refreshing and energizes me.
Cowperson