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Held a screwdriver in my hand for 6 hours straight last Tuesday and felt every single year of my career
I was rebuilding a fallen rack at a clinic in Yonkers last Tuesday, six hours straight with a screwdriver and cage nuts, and when I finally stood up my hand stayed bent like I was still holding it. That was the moment it clicked that this job is slowly wearing my body down one small job at a time. I'm 39 and my knuckles already crack like an old man's when I make a fist in the morning. I started keeping a wrist brace in the van and I stretch between tickets now, which sounds dumb but it helps. My old lead tech warned me about this years ago and I laughed at him back then. Any of you older techs got stretches or braces that kept you working past 50, or did you just switch to the desk side?
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king.lisa1mo ago
It's funny how the body keeps score even when we don't notice. Same thing happened to my knees after years of scrubbing floors on my hands and knees, and it wasn't one big injury, just a thousand small mornings of ignoring it. What got me was how fast it turns. One day you're laughing at the old guy's warning, the next you're the one buying the brace. Nobody tells you that the little stuff adds up, that staying still for hours is its own kind of heavy work.
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