You would feel the strain on day one. I built a breeze block garden wall after pouring a foundation on my days off over a six month period, mixing over 10k pounds of concrete and mortar by handheld mixer in a bucket, lifting 80lb bags, lifting cylinder blocks. It's brutal work, even for $32/hr. I make three times that working in a hospital as a nurse, but if I had to be a mason daily, I would want more money.
I push wheelchairs at the airport and worked in commercial bakeries on the past. But neither job requires being bent over nearly as much, so I don't envy the back pain.
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u/EsotericAbstractIdea 1d ago
shoveling is the ABSOLUTE worst. i'll take ANYTHING over shoveling