Anyone else here Like work?

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No, not like chatting with your fun work friends at the office.

I mean work like F x d = J physical work. Like building things, lifting heavy tools and materials, using heavy tools and materials, digging, landscaping, moving stuff etc - the kind of work that leaves you with a satisfying soreness at the end of the day that let’s you know:

A) You earned this day.
B) You’re going to be stronger for it.

And then of course there’s the whole simple fact that those who enjoy work have a much higher probability of success over the long run, which is another good benefit. But this could also apply to someone who puts in long hours at the office, too, so not physical work specific.

I definitely do. Achy and sore at the end of the day helps remind me that I'm alive (as does eating spicy food).

Cutting, splitting, stacking, burning wood.
Tractor work
Hauling and stacking brush
Home and yard work
Gardening
Pounding fence posts and building things

My Dad was all work and no play except for fishing and hunting occasionally. He also rarely sat still (ADHD I suspect). I'm very much like him with my work ethic.

I enjoy physical work like different types of construction labor. A job where I pretty much get paid to work out all day. I used to do telemarketing but after experiencing outside construction work, I could never go back to doing inside sit on your butt all day work.

Ya, me too. My dad has been working 40-80h+/wk to selflessly provide for his family for almost the entirety of the last ~45 years.

I sort of consider it both an obligation and an honour to carry on doing the same.

So much this. I went to business school but would rather build things. If I ever can’t build things, then I can sit at a desk and crunch numbers or whatever. But for now, building things keeps me in pretty good shape.

I have a mature yard, so I spend a lot of time cutting things back/down rather than building things. I also try to avoid heavy lifting by chopping or sawing things into manageable pieces.

Worked something like 22 days in a row, had two days off - partied hard for Pride & was up for over 40 hours before I crashed the next evening.. been back to work all week, working this weekend, not sure about Monday yet, but hoping I have another site to roll right on to.. annnnd, the Saturday night before Pride I slept like 8h, but other than that I’ve been running on 4-4.5h/night & then napping at the beach some evenings.

I’m sore, but it’s a good sore. Healthy food and plenty of water and I’ll be stronger for this for sure.

Short Answer : Yes (As long as it's not being forced upon Me like I'm in slavery)

I feel pretty bad when I'm not being productive (in any sense), but being in an almost constant state of "my immune system is attacking every fibre of my being" means that there is absolutely, positively, nothing satisfying about working until I am sore >_<

And it's cumulative, so the more work I do, means that when the weekend (or just Sunday) that I get off comes around, I basically spend it sitting in a chair with brain fog.

I love heavy work and the satisfaction that comes with the pain.

I didn't mind doing custodial/janitorial stuff when management left me alone to do it. I wouldn't say it was extremely psychical as in the sense of very heavy lifting or getting sore very often but I was busy & I didn't mind all the walking & hand & arm movements 1ce I got used to it which took a little while. It felt good to be out of the house & doing something. My parents were on my back aLOT before I started working about how I needed to find a job & be independent even thou I was doing my very best to find any job I thought I might could do. I was also dealing with a depression & working was kind of a distraction from that. I was a workaholic by working longer hours & coming in on my off days when management allowed me to make overtime.

Yes, doing what you Can feels good.. but for me, being able to do MOAR & lifting The Heaviest things feels best! Especially since ~6 years ago I was fat and weak and suffered from chronic fatigue symptoms - I legit could barely even hold the tools & felt like I was going to fall off the ladder I was on. That's Not how the son of a Drywaller likes to feel. I'd WAY rather be able to WORK. It's in my blood. Hard Work has supported our family for generations and it felt AWFUL not to be able to work at all. Now, though? Life is different. I can work.. and at 6'2 ~200lbs around 12%bf I'm strong af & almost always the strongest guy on my crew, sometimes on the whole site, but at least in the top handful - depending on how big of a construction site it is and how many guys are there. Sometimes on a site of a couple hundred workers there are some guys that are SERIOUSLY jacked from YEARS of hard work. But w/e, I'm not competing with them - I'm outdoing myself. It does feel REALLY good to be able to always volunteer to lift the heaviest things/help out etc when something needs to get done... like someone dreading getting a big industrial fan up the the top of a 5 storey scaffold.. "I'll get it up there." Heh, all eyes on me.. yep, F'kn watch me - that fan is going to the top if I have to lash it to my arm and drag it straight up the ladder! (I used a rope and pulley, it wasn't that hard, others just weren't very strong.)

Yes,semi truck and heavy equipment mechanic here,start a new job tommorrow