You can control for this through diet and exercise. You can't control herniated disks and nerve damage. Sitting is unhealthy but not as bad as manual labor
Totally agree, but physical labor causes permanent damage. I would rather cut my expenses and make less doing easier work, but that's just me. Furthermore, the world needs physical work until robots replace us all!
Customer service for a solar panel company. When somebody wants to receive a quote or more information or schedule an appointment for an estimate to sketch out the details of putting a solar panel system on their house, they get patched through to me.
I love this job a lot more than my old sales jobs which involved needless travel, quotas, pressures, and lots of layoffs!
I make $34,000 a year sitting in an air conditioned office talking to people on the phone all day. When I see people doing manual labor, I am truly surprised at the abuse people are willing to take to pay their rent and feed their family