• Jumi@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 hour ago

    There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing chips fly and that solid block of steel turn into something underneath my tools. You would have to pay me an excessive wage to have me sit in front of a screen instead standing on a lathe or mill.

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours ago

    I worked in a Mexican restaurant for two months. I burned my finger on the beans pot on my first day, and my hands were always wet from washing dishes, so it didn’t heal until after I quit.

    I actually like using excel.

  • ccunix@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Yesterday one of my colleagues announced he had a headache so was going to have a nap. We all just wished him well and carried on without him.

    Compare that to most farm workers who are lucky to have all 4 major limbs.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
    7·
    5 hours ago

    Oh yeah? I once had to run search for a first aid kid because a friend cut her finger with a knife while slicking bread in the office cafeteria. Office jobs are no joke, bad shit happens there too.

  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
    12·
    7 hours ago

    Today I worked a corporate event. It was a lunch for all the bigwigs celebrating the completion of a freeway… that was completed 10 years ago.

    These people just spend all day jerking eachother off while the guys who actually built the road are still out there working.

  • deft@lemmy.wtf
    8·
    8 hours ago

    Nah I like the chaos.

    Fist fighting a pizza oven was the highlight of my career.

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
    61·
    14 hours ago

    I recently took a 20% pay cut to move from a factory to a remote desk job. No regrets.

    • CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today
      151·
      12 hours ago

      When people say “remote,” is that the new code word for “working from home or wherever the hell I want to work, such as a swimming pool at a resort in Cabo San Lucas”?

      • hOrni@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 hours ago

        I wish. My work computer is a 2 monitor PC setup so not a lot of ability to travel. But I can sometimes move to my parents house for a change of scenery.

      • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
        19·
        12 hours ago

        Yes for white collar. Blue collar remote means you drive 100+ miles to different sites to service industrial shit. I used to be an application engineer/FSR for a water chemistry company, serving power plants. Other regions had steel mills and paper mills, and I’m glad I only ever went to one to pick up equipment and drive back to regional HQ.

    • TrackShovel@lemmy.todayOP
      22·
      14 hours ago

      I ended up getting a pay raise, and out of the field by switching gigs. Now I just shitpost, and clatter away ona keyboard from my swivel-throne. It’s great, and it’s remote.

  • gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish
    731·
    15 hours ago

    Those people aren’t saying desk jobs are worse or even “just as bad” to make physical laborers feel better; it’s a word of warning to those with so-called “safe” jobs to be cautious of issues many people aren’t aware of.

    • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.auEnglish
      8·
      7 hours ago

      It’s more about total impact on the general population. While working labor causes many chronic issues with your body, and working around hazardous materials is it’s own world of hell, sedentary lifestyle is one of, if not the largest, reason that obesity, and a million cardio thoracic problems have ballooned to crisis levels.

  • RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    13 hours ago

    So true, every non-desk job is a non-stop nightmare of blood and guts. I’ve worked a physical job for 30 years and saw a guy twist his ankle once and another guy cut his finger and need two stitches. I pray the nightmares will stop

    • arrow74@lemmy.zip
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I’m a field scientist and it’s the perfect job. It’s a mix of desk and fieldwork. Sure injuries can happen out in the field, but I’ve never seen anything too gruesome. Just cuts, scrapes, and bumps for the most part.

      It’s pretty nice that some days I get to go be in the woods doing my job

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 hours ago

      There’s many jobs short of that without being a desk-job. Lots of factory jobs that work with candy-ass thruput or whatever. Candy-ass is nice

  • CheesyFingers@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    11 hours ago

    Genuinely: the worst part about my swivel throne job is that i spend all day perusing the algorithmically curated contents of Pandoras box.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13·
    13 hours ago

    they say our time is over

    They say our time is through

    They say you need no union if your collar isn’t blue

    Well that is just another lie the boss is telling you!

    For the union makes us strong!