&gt; destroying your back, knees, your hands end up cut and calloused<p>+ your hearing, it can be very noisy in a mine.<p>I&#x27;m from a coal mining region and some of the miners hate the job with passion and curse it every day as they get on the comutter&#x27;s bus. Others are more indifferent about it and even enjoy some aspects of it (mostly camraderie). I&#x27;m pretty sure the majority of them would switch for ANY office job that pays the same.<p>My general thoughts on the &quot;I&#x27;m unhappy doing CRUD&quot; sentiments is that people generally tend to get bored with what they&#x27;re doing and the dream of one day doing something else, something more fulfilling, relieves the pain somewhat. Funnily, for pretty much all the alternative careers that devs talk about, there are internet threads where people working those jobs are discussing how to retrain as a software developer.