There&#x27;s also the black lung that you don&#x27;t quite get being a corporate coder.<p>I think it&#x27;s very easy for people who aren&#x27;t working with their hands every day to sit back and talk about the &#x27;satisfaction&#x27; you get. You may get that if you go and do it for a day. When you&#x27;re doing it every day you&#x27;re destroying your back, knees, your hands end up cut and calloused, and you&#x27;re exhausted. And the &#x27;satisfaction&#x27; probably doesn&#x27;t make up for the lower pay manual labour jobs typical come with.