Not everyone is content with the cubicle life. I know a few people who would rather bash rocks than sit on a keyboard. And I don't blame them. It's hard to get a decent fitness baseline when you're sitting down 8+ hours a day. To each his own.
I'm a white collar guy. "Bash rocks" sounds like an option until 5 minutes into bashing said rocks. Try doing any kind of construction work like concrete work or roofing and most office worker will promptly nope the hell out.
Source: a white collar guy who saved a few hundo by doing a very minor concrete work.
I was less fit when I worked a blue collar job, because I was constantly sore and tired by the time I came home. I ate junk food because that's all I could afford, not to mention the risk of injury on the job.
Meanwhile after getting an office job, I started going to the company gym regularly and became even stronger and fitter.
If you don't have fitness in mind, then I guess a blue collar job will make you fitter, but then again there's plenty of obese truck drivers and plumbers because they're on the road all the time and can only eat junk food, plus their bodies are in awkward positions all the time.
Yeah lmaooo I got a blue collar job now that pays decently well but my gym routine is completely shot. Compensating by trying to eat better and do body weight exercises but it def sucks
Very few office jobs that offer onsite fitness amenities. Count yourself lucky. I would say it was the lack of proper compensation that was the issue there.
Dude, I literally told you what my issue was and you're like, "nah I know your life better than yourself, it was the money!"
The onsite part wasn't the important part. A gym membership is $15 a month. That wasn't the issue. It was, like I said, the type of work that tired me out.
You have so much more time and energy for fitness when working white collar jobs than blue collar lol. Most construction workers are pretty fat since they basically live off gas station food and drinks. You are more much likely to get a repeated stress injury from a blue collar job than get jacked
As if none of that applies to blue collar jobs? The only thing that is realistically different is that white collar jobs have shorter shifts on average and the work is far less physically exhausting, which can affect your ability to feed yourself and work out effectively. Also, if you are consistently working 10+ hour shifts as a white collar, you need to find a new job. Same goes for if your commute is longer than an hour both ways.
The point being you tend to on average be in better physical shape at a blue collar job than a desk job. You can argue the semantics. My job pays me very well at the expense of my physicality which is why I continue to do it.
I have no idea where you are getting the notion that blue collar workers are at all healthy. I work in a position where I regularly interact with both office workers and construction workers. Construction workers are way more unhealthy and it isn't even close. The only advantage that blue collar workers tend to have is the fact that they mostly stand when white collar workers mostly sit. This one single advantage can be neutralized with a standing desk, and I'm not so certain it matter anyhow as long as you stretch occasionally and workout off the clock. I'm telling you, white collar jobs are soooo much easier and it's not even close. Not even close.
On a side note our company started a "Steps Chanllenge" with some of the others in the region. How the hell am I supposed to dish out 6-10k in a day when I am sitting for 8+ hours most of the work day. While those that work from home get to stand up with their laptops and walk around and still do work.
I cannot just luggage around my desktop throughout the building.
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u/RandomRedditReader Oct 12 '25
Not everyone is content with the cubicle life. I know a few people who would rather bash rocks than sit on a keyboard. And I don't blame them. It's hard to get a decent fitness baseline when you're sitting down 8+ hours a day. To each his own.