Student loans are literally depressing people

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53. Your friends who do construction trades will quite possibly have broken bodies later

I'm very familiar with the trades and tradesmen, of the many older ones I know a lot have physical ailments brought on by decades of doing things like carrying heavy items up many flights of stairs, falls from ladders, scaffolds and so on, working tight spaces in contorted positions, working in extremes of heat and cold.

At the moment I have a friend who is hoping he is physically able to continue to work another 18 months until he turns 62 and can draw (reduced) SS. Ten years ago he was making $100K, now he's lucky to make $25K and scrambling hard for jobs to make that.

ETA: In fact the next thread I clicked on after leaving this thread was here....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026195458

"Few white-collar people understand the degree to which manual labor chews up workers’ bodies"