&gt; for the record: I&#x27;ve done both. I&#x27;ve had a number of very physically intensive jobs when I started my career and to this day I&#x27;m grateful every bloody day that my life took a turn for the better and that I don&#x27;t have to work until I can&#x27;t stand up straight anymore. Being not the most physically strong person I realize that if I had continued down that path I would have been a physical wreck by now.<p>&gt; Have some respect for the people that do the heavy lifting. And if you&#x27;re unconvinced: go take a manual labor job for a year or so and re-read your comment here.<p>Jacques, why the rancor and assumption that the OP and other commenters (like the GP) haven&#x27;t also had physical jobs? I certainly have… It&#x27;s all I did the first several years of my working life. And like you, my life is now quite different.<p>You have a different point of view, but it&#x27;s not because we haven&#x27;t done physical work. In fact, in my case I&#x27;d say it was my experience doing that kind of work that leads me to identify with what the OP describes in the linked article.