Comment by lotsofpulp 6 months ago
You don’t have to sit to program, and there are generally far more degrees of freedom, e.g. bathroom breaks and eating healthy food from a fridge and microwave, etc.
Also, many/most taxi drivers have to regularly work evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. (Also upping the risk due to sleepy or drunk drivers).
This is just devolving into a dispute about the definition of grueling.
The dictionary says “extremely tiring and demanding”. Letting random people into your space, putting your primary income generating asset at risk, being on constant alert, and working long, undesirable hours that results in health problems qualifies as grueling for me. Maybe not as grueling as some other types of labor, but obviously more grueling than 95% of programming jobs.
The drivers taking constant breaks and working whenever they feel like it are not the ones earning any decent amount of money.
Uber drivers can take a break and pick their own hours whenever they want. They can even nap wherever they want.
Still not grueling imo.