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I'm not a labourer in the slightest, but I'm a rock climber though. Sometimes for up to two days after a strong session the finger print reader on my keyboard doesn't work. It always eventually starts working again :)

Even indoor bouldering has had an effect for me - my thicker skin just doesn't always register well on my phone screen.

That's me. I'm a double bassist, a kind of blue collar laborer. ;-) It's worst during the winter. It's a shame because I prefer to use a touch screen on my laptop.

I worked in a fast food restaurant before college. I would be on the closing crew about three or four days a week. I would usually be the one washing and scrubbing the crusty broiler parts every time.

When I got to college, they gave everyone Thinkpads with fingerprint readers. Mine had trouble reading my fingerprints for about 2 months. I guess that I scrubbed my fingerprints away with all that grease, and it took that long for my fingerprints to "regrow" enough for the sensor to recognize them.

Exactly, my brother works on power lines and wears many different types of gloves, all his computer tools are button actionated.