Hard Work

[DrFaroohk]

What do you think of as "hard work"?

[Becks]

Where's the "all of the above" option?

I ask because I cycle through all of them.

[cinema guy]

Certainly the first three. The fourth option just makes any work worse.

[Iced Coffee Man]

The stress is what gets me, trying to do my job while being surrounded by cun- I mean, customers

[XCashier]

Really, it's difficult to choose just one. Physically exhausting labor can wreak havoc on your body. High stress office work can do the same to your mind and long hours will do both.

One option I didn't see is where the job has you doing the same task over and over and over and over and over and over and over... I hate jobs like that. You get in a rut, your brain feels atrophied and you can end up getting a repetetive motion injury (which I can attest are quite painful).

[DrFaroohk]

I think that goes under the physically stressful option.

[Dark-Star]

Unless we're talking an Uber-serious superheavy workload, physical beats mental any day of the week. I've had tastes of both. At the very least mental overwork has little possibility of putting you shrieking on the ground when your back suddenly spazzes out. (it healed, PTL, but scare city)

[SG15Z]

All of the above!

[artifical sweetner]

you know it's hard work when the highlight of your day(s) is sleeping

[Geek King]

At the very least mental overwork has little possibility of putting you shrieking on the ground [...]

You've never dealt with my users.


I'd say hard work for me is being so busy that you can't take a mental break. A full day of uninterrupted concentration is rough on a person, mentally or physically.

[Rapscallion]

Well, I've just had a good day off. Twelve hours of overtime. Eight of them in the warehouse.

Heh.

Rapscallion

[SG15Z]

you know it's hard work when the highlight of your day(s) is sleeping

*snores* ...........er...bah.......what?! *wakes up* Um how about when sleep is the only thing you do when you're home? I've had weeks like that.....those were fun times....

Well, I've just had a good day off. Twelve hours of overtime. Eight of them in the warehouse.

Heh.

Rapscallion

Those are the best days off!!!!

Well at least they are paycheck wise if you're paid by the hour. For you salary people. I'm sorry, I really am.

[dalesys]

you know it's hard work when the highlight of your day(s) is sleeping

Not if you spend all your dream time doing your job.

That's how I knew it was time to quit at Little America (a truckstop in Wyoming)... I dreamed all night I was jumping trucks.