Really hate this "if you work at a diner" line on SS

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25. I fully agree about the desk jobs. God knows that many very physical jobs ruin people's

bodies by the time they are in their 50's (carpenter, roofer, etc.) but jobs that are sedentary have their own dangers -- I've lost count of the number of people I know who have serious problems with their hands, wrists, and arms and lower backs from typing or other repetitive movements (on assembly lines, for example) while sitting down. And now we have medical studies documenting the health problems simply from sitting all the time and not moving around much all day. I know that when I went from a moderately active job (walking the floor at a dept store) to a sedentary one in an office, I gained 20 lbs in the blink of an eye. Took years to get it back off, too, and I got diabetes to boot.

As BG noted, many of the desk jobs also require that you be connected 24/7, and also had ongoing mental stress associated with them. I worked for a large corporation and retired after 15 years at age 61; the difference in my employer's attitude toward us, the downsizing, the loading of work onto remaining employees, the insistence on requiring more and more education while downsizing the pay, well, over just those 15 years the difference was totally amazing and disgusting. I had been proud and happy to work where I worked until about the last 5 years. It began to be a nightmare.