Reddit reviews The Case for Working with Your Hands, Or, Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good
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Follow it up with "Shop Class as Soulcraft". He pretty much picks up a lot from ZataoMM and continues it. He has a follow-up book to SCaS but I haven't read it yet. It's on my list when I have some $$$.
I've done what were basically labouring jobs. It was in art, but in big architectural-scale fibreglass installations. It beat the snot out of every office job I've ever had. No pretend "busy work", I ate as much food as I could physically stuff in my face and still lost about 12lb over four months, and I was ripped at the end of it. Well, like, builder-ripped, where you have massive arms but still have kind of a gut, but still.
I work mostly in consultancy and education now, which pays better than most labouring (at least per hour), but I still occasionally do big installations and stuff. And I basically teach "making" in the broadest sense. Because I like physical work, and I like making things. There are lots of people who are in white collar work who I reckon would be much happier in a trade. This book has it spot on, IMO.
Yup, there's definitely an alternate dimension me who's a bin woman or a chippy or something and I bet she's just fine. Probably better off than me, in fact.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/working-hands-happiness-burkeman
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Working-Your-Hands-Office/dp/0141047291