I said if you're SEVENTY YEARS OLD, and STILL doing manual labor,
you did something wrong.
A little personal story for you:
My son's first job after dropping out of college was with the County's
Utility Department, on a "Road Crew". So he went out when there was
a water main break or a leak in the water system. He'd be the guy at
the bottom of the ditch, knee deep in water, in the rain, with a shovel,
digging.
There was an old guy on his crew - late 50s.
He'd been working on a Road Crew ever since he was my son's age.
Doing the same work. Not in the ditch anymore (seniority has its
privileges - lol) but still hauling pipe off the truck and wrestling it into
the hole and filling ditches and all that.
No ambition to advance. Maybe become a Crew Chief. Or work his
way up to an Office job.
He looked at my son once when they were out standing in the rain
and said 'Do NOT do this for your whole life'.
If you do that kind of work until you're 70, you did it wrong.
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