i enjoy my work.
my mates go to the gym after work as they’ve too much energy and feel guilty for having sat on their arse all day for eight hours.
and the idea that manual work isn’t mentally challenging is also wrong. ever thrown up a proper timber framed pitch roof with gables? or you’ve got 250m2 of flooring to lay and only .25m2 of board more than you need – careful with those cuts?
couldn’t imagine being sat in an office with people that i don’t particularily like. true, there are some people that i work with that i don’t much like, but once the job is over – say a week or two – then i probably won’t see them again for ages, if not ever.
and digging holes is rewarding. as is standing around at 4:30 with a beer and a rollie looking at what you’ve done…. 🙂