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I mean most hard labor and construction type jobs, while they are doing manual labor, they are making way more than you so the trade-off is most definitely worth it.

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!

Sedentary office work also causes permanent damage.

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

Many of them don't have the options that you do.

I'm reasonably certain that union construction workers make more than I do

What do you do?

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!