Spend the winter in Chicago plumbing a highrise -10 hour days, standing on cold concrete getting screamed at by the foreman because you moved slower than a jog. fuck that. Like a lot of people I have a laundry list of jobs I've done before my IT career took off and none of them I'd wish upon anyone. There were good days but mostly they were just hard days everyday and money -even as a journeyman I couldn't come close to making what I make now unless I worked 12h days and Saturdays too boot -again, fuck that.

The good thing is after 30 years in IT I can do the vast majority of my work on autopilot, I've seen so many things and I know how to work around problems so while stressful it's still better than coming home from the job site and you whole body hurts. Maybe people don't know what a bad job really is.