Coping With Pain, A Blogger’s Story

I stopped working at a physical job partly due to the backpain I was suffering from on a daily basis.  Since then, moving into another industry that requires my brain instead of my body has been very rewarding.  Gone are the days of lifting cement, drywall and plywood, now the heaviest thing I lift is a box of paper occassionally.  Its been a smooth transition going from a warehouse environment to an office environment, but it also took a large committment from myself.

It was partly a forced option to leave my physical demanding job, but I still played a major role in where my life was taking me.  For instance, the very next job I got after being lay-off at the warehouse was at a lumber factory.  This job was equally physically demanding if not more and also involved shift work.  Well, I hated shift work and my back was more sore than ever, so that’s when I finally decided to leave this type of work altogether.  Fortunitely I got layed off from the lumber factory ten weeks after being hired, it really was a blessing in disguise.
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