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Re:Ask HN: What was your favorite job? by trivorak on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:07PM (#36966087)
I currently found my way into a data analytics job within a pretty big oil company and it suites me well… but I would still claim my favorite job was manual labor (plumbing on new homes and the like). Something about doing something physical and feeling like I really accomplished something.

I was way out of my element but I really learned a lot from my co workers.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your favorite job? by justsomehnguy on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:14PM (#36966134)
People working with non-manual labor always had this.

Eg: I did some things in my life which saved both the time and the labour of many people, but I didn't receive anything substantial from it, not even a t-shirt. Yet when I brought down the nation-wide money transferring service I did received the spotlight...

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