Whine whine whine. How many of you have physical jobs? As in you have to move around all day, crawl into tight spaces, and over heat your body all day by being outside? Come on!

Just because people don't have physical jobs doesn't mean they can't have some sort of pain afflicting them. I didn't even realise all the posts above mine were also about what ails people. I just posted my own un-awesomeness at a coincidental time to the rest of the discussion.

And I did have to move around all day, albeit in the one building but still when you have several hundred of something to produce and not a lot of hours to produce it it can be tiring. And for me, there's 9 different machines to go through before the finished product is thrown in a box. While I'm sure it sucks to be overheated it also sucks to run a constant risk of losing various bits of your lower arm and hands because everything you work with revolves around the use of immensely sharp blades and saws, and you're using them all at the fastest pace you possibly can because you have so much to get through.

Studies in Occupational Health have shown that each year, a huge number of people suffer from Repetitive Strain injury, which comes mostly from smaller, more tedious jobs in the workplace that you wouldn't expect to cause any distress. I think it costs the American government alone something like twenty billion dollars in workers compensation. So you know, just because you don't drive steel spikes into railroad tracks, lift heavy things, spend from dawn till dusk in a mine or whatever other physical jobs you can have doesn't mean that you have any more right to complain about nagging pains than anyone else.

Sorry to rant, your post just appeared to belittle my occupation; I think I was the only person to link work to their annoying pains on this page.

Leech - At least I'm not doing you're job. I'd propbably make good friends with the mentioned saws.

My college course is quite labour intensive actually. Perhaps cause it takes me an hour to get there to start off with, (40 mins walking, 20 train.) but by the end of term I'm dragging suitcases of fabrics, sketchbooks, and god knows whatever else in there. And when you're tiny and weak like I am, it can be tiring. Haha.

I like being on the sewing machines, but there's nothing more frustrating than sewing an entire piece wrong, and having to go back and unstitch it all. Doesn't sound like much, but it takes up hours of time
But then I guess I'm lucky enough not to have run over my fingers in the industrial sewing machine (Yet?) So I guess thats okay, haha.

Also, knitting machines are REALLY painful. They have evil little metal hooks, so if you whack yourself on it, you notice very quickly. Yep, I found this out.

Whine whine whine. How many of you have physical jobs? As in you have to move around all day, crawl into tight spaces, and over heat your body all day by being outside? Come on!

Just because people don't have physical jobs doesn't mean they can't have some sort of pain afflicting them. I didn't even realise all the posts above mine were also about what ails people. I just posted my own un-awesomeness at a coincidental time to the rest of the discussion.

And I did have to move around all day, albeit in the one building but still when you have several hundred of something to produce and not a lot of hours to produce it it can be tiring. And for me, there's 9 different machines to go through before the finished product is thrown in a box. While I'm sure it sucks to be overheated it also sucks to run a constant risk of losing various bits of your lower arm and hands because everything you work with revolves around the use of immensely sharp blades and saws, and you're using them all at the fastest pace you possibly can because you have so much to get through.

Studies in Occupational Health have shown that each year, a huge number of people suffer from Repetitive Strain injury, which comes mostly from smaller, more tedious jobs in the workplace that you wouldn't expect to cause any distress. I think it costs the American government alone something like twenty billion dollars in workers compensation. So you know, just because you don't drive steel spikes into railroad tracks, lift heavy things, spend from dawn till dusk in a mine or whatever other physical jobs you can have doesn't mean that you have any more right to complain about nagging pains than anyone else.

Sorry to rant, your post just appeared to belittle my occupation; I think I was the only person to link work to their annoying pains on this page.

No, I definitely didnt mean to. You seem to have a harder, more physical job than most people on here. My job has so many risks it's not even funny. I know for a fact I'll have some form of cancer later in life because of all the fiberglass insulation I breathe in. Not to mention the snakes, spiders, and other creatures I can come in contact with, unknowingly, during the course of my typical work day.

Whine whine whine. How many of you have physical jobs? As in you have to move around all day, crawl into tight spaces, and over heat your body all day by being outside? Come on! lololol

Oh that's why you have that big car. To help with your manual labour. Installing air conditioners.

No I have a separate work truck for that. I have a mid-size SUV, no big V-8 in it or anything, and it gets good gas mileage for an SUV. I got one because I wanted one, end of story...granted at this point because of payments I kind of wish I never got it...

Indeed, what hurts, articulation ? Muscles ?
I'm no doctor, but I say that cuz' I got shoulder tendinitis caused by a shitty desk (and being jobless for a while didn't help doing something else), the keyboard was higher than the sliding board (used by the tablet graphic) so for a bunch of years I was messing up my shoulders slowly everytime I was using my keyboard, I ended up using the elevator muscles too much (deltoids, trapeze, high pectoral) and the lower muscles not enough (low pectoral, serratus anterior) causing a bad balance (which may be a cause to my collarbone popping up). It went to the point were I would wake up with paresthesia in my hands and it would hurt my upper arm to hold a bottle with my arm stretched, or just driving. I changed my desk and had some kinesiotherapy, and a bunch of months later (tendinitis takes a while to heal), I'm fine.

If your sitting at a desk a lot, you should check your position, having a nice desk and seat may be a certain investment, but it's worth it. I would suggest to use armchair, not to put the weight of your arm on your wrist, and not bending your wrist when using a mice, if its on a sliding board that is too low for instance.

Oh and a problem in the shoulder can probably effect your whole arm I think (I used to do a loft of web serach months ago, so I may mix the infos), so your wrist may hurt while the cause isn't there.

Yes. Yes. Yes. I wasn't about to own up to attributing arms pains and shoulder pain to spending too much time at a key board, or holding a heavy instrument all the time ( Yah I know I'm weak) but you seem to have good advice. In all fairness, my last job was an office job that involved lots of typing.
Anyways, were you sitting with your shoulders all tensed up, and kind of hunched? That's what happens to me since my swivel chair doesn't have arm rests. NEED to get a new chair, and some wrist support mechanism.

I changed my desk and had some kinesiotherapy, and a bunch of months later (tendinitis takes a while to heal), I'm fine.

I had some physical therapy as well, which took care of the problem; but I've fallen into my old ways, and it's getting bad again. I have a thing or two to learn *facepalm*

[swervedriver]

While studying may not be a physical job or anything, I'm pretty sure some of the stuff I come into contact with (or try as much as possible to avoid contact with) is pretty freakin' harmful. To clarify, I'm a chemical engineering student, currently doing my graduation project. Recently I've worked with nano-sized silica particles (they can do delightful things to your lungs/skin/digestive tract/etc), various suspected carcinogenic solvents, melamine (which in China got some directors sentenced to death for mixing it in their baby formula), to name a few... I've had various odd sicknesses/discomforts this year and I really doubt all of them are unrelated to what I've worked with. Physical, not really; hazardous, quite, even with the required safety measures in place.

Whine whine whine. How many of you have physical jobs? As in you have to move around all day, crawl into tight spaces, and over heat your body all day by being outside? Come on!

Just because people don't have physical jobs doesn't mean they can't have some sort of pain afflicting them. I didn't even realise all the posts above mine were also about what ails people. I just posted my own un-awesomeness at a coincidental time to the rest of the discussion.

And I did have to move around all day, albeit in the one building but still when you have several hundred of something to produce and not a lot of hours to produce it it can be tiring. And for me, there's 9 different machines to go through before the finished product is thrown in a box. While I'm sure it sucks to be overheated it also sucks to run a constant risk of losing various bits of your lower arm and hands because everything you work with revolves around the use of immensely sharp blades and saws, and you're using them all at the fastest pace you possibly can because you have so much to get through.

Studies in Occupational Health have shown that each year, a huge number of people suffer from Repetitive Strain injury, which comes mostly from smaller, more tedious jobs in the workplace that you wouldn't expect to cause any distress. I think it costs the American government alone something like twenty billion dollars in workers compensation. So you know, just because you don't drive steel spikes into railroad tracks, lift heavy things, spend from dawn till dusk in a mine or whatever other physical jobs you can have doesn't mean that you have any more right to complain about nagging pains than anyone else.

Sorry to rant, your post just appeared to belittle my occupation; I think I was the only person to link work to their annoying pains on this page.

No, I definitely didnt mean to. You seem to have a harder, more physical job than most people on here. My job has so many risks it's not even funny. I know for a fact I'll have some form of cancer later in life because of all the fiberglass insulation I breathe in.

Way ahead of you there unfortunately (though that's behind me, aside from my lacking condition/concentration), but shouldn't they give you some sort of respiratory mask when you work with that stuff?

Waking up without any energy whatsoever, without actually being sick. Also, my back hurts which makes me feel about 30 years older. Something's not right with my left knee either. MEH.

/rant

Dude sorry to hear about that. It's probably get better, right?

I feel elderly too, as sometimes I have to wear one of those arm braces for carpal tunnel, except I don't have carpal tunnel - just a fucked up wrist. My shoulders hurt a lot... maybe I'm just weak

I have back and shoulder pains. I personally blame bad posture. We're not taught to sit and stand like our parents were.

May very well be the cause of this back pain, possibly my new pillow which I've now slept with for about 3 weeks. It's a bit poofier than my previous one so maybe that fucks with my spine. Sleeps like a dream though. Left knee I possibly twisted poorly somehow (it was also aching last weekend after 1 hour of motorbiking), we'll see how that goes this weekend. Energy will be fixed this Friday because that may be my B12 deficiency acting up (yay for injections every 2 months).

I need more pills and injections than my grandmother ffs...


Anyway, sorreh about the counter-rant or whatever this was. Too long in any case.

Well we can use a mask if we'd like...but being in an attic with anything on your face hindering your breathing or mobility due to it being bulky is not even worth it =/

So you'd rather have cancer than hinder your mobility. Sense.

Could you not just wear a small filter one? Something like this:



They're usually so light you wouldn't even feel yourself wearing one. And it's better than inhaling all manner of shit from your surroundings.

[Keeker]

So you'd rather have cancer than hinder your mobility. Sense.

Seconded. But they're male, sense doesn't come into it.

So you'd rather have cancer than hinder your mobility. Sense.

Also, masks are SPIDERPROOF.

So you'd rather have cancer than hinder your mobility. Sense.

Also, masks are SPIDERPROOF.

What the fuck, I find that hawt. Not sure if it's the girl or spider.

Damn dude - that girl's like 12!!


That spider wins though. Except for the Urticating hairs!! *scream*

Damn dude - that girl's like 12!!


That spider wins though. Except for the Urticating hairs!! *scream*

She is? D: But... the spider is covering her face, can't see anything but the one eye.

Pretty young, Aby.


My bird feeder this morning.




This is after he ran off a few feet, freezing like a statue under my plum tree. Notice all the dying dandelions in the foreground. That's rather awesome, actually.

Oh goood delete my 2 previous posts then, oh gooooooooood