I think people like to make all these claims but any blue collar worker would love a desk job. It’s easy and to stop paying the physical price you just stand up every hour and walk to the water cooler and then come back to a well-adjusted desk.

Ironworking and carpentry are actually hard on one’s body. You only need one fuck-up. And that’s nothing like being a roughneck.

These are not the RSI kind of injuries. These are the They Sent Me Home For a Year injuries.