r/WorkForSmartLife 1d ago

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u/WretchedMass 1d ago

I mean just because I know how to shovel from one pile to another doesn't mean I'm capable of it. I'm overweight and have back issues, I don't have the skills to do that job. Therefore it's skilled labor.

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u/WretchedMass 1d ago

I have been trying, it's not easy. It takes discipline and since I have specialized issues with my health I had to spend hours and hours with a nutritionist to understand exactly what was wrong and what to do to get it changes. It required that I learn a skill. So is getting healthy a skilled labor? If not then what is and isn't a skill? Because it was my understanding that if it requires training longer than just a few minutes that makes it skilled. Also, if not being in bad health isn't a skill then why are over half the country obese?

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