Also, huge cost to your body. Every relative I know who is was the trades, now has issues all the time directly attributable to their work. Their body has aged x2 compared to mine.
Some people seem to think it’s like going to the gym or something smh
My dad is a contractor and every summer through college I’d go work for him as a low-skilled laborer.
I hated it at the time - all these years later I’m grateful because a) it taught me a lot of useful handyman stuff and b) I have no illusions of how great it is to “work with your hands” or outside everyday.
No one I worked with ever wished their job for their kids and everyone said how lucky I was to get to go to college.