My presence on Photrio is intermittent. Perhaps multiple times a day, but only briefly. Let's just say I don't make my living with a computer anymore, and even when I did, I kept up a lot of manual tasks alongside it to keep my fingers and eyes from getting ruined.
The most tedious unhealthy kind of work is sitting on one's aching ass all day and straining your eyes punching computer buttons. Far worse than finish carpentry. As a purchasing agent, I had to do an awful lot of that; even had my own private server plus shared software writer. But I jockeyed my work role so that I could get daily hands-on breaks with my own merchandise.
I am an astronomer. My work is overwhelmingly at a computer. While my work is not at all tedious, it is certainly unhealthy in some ways. One of the reasons I chose photography as a hobby is that it gets me away from the computer, out of the house, and on my feet. There are only so many times you can take a photo of the same bowl of fruit in the living room, and you cannot do photography from a moving car. So I have to go somewhere outside and actually walk. I find that that helps with my physical and mental health.
"But I was in Wisconsin when these motorcycles pass us—I see them behind us, and Skip’s driving, and I start yelling, “Keep up with them!” I’m shooting through the front window with a 105mm lens, and I make this picture called Route 12, Wisconsin, which I think the British Museum later declared as a masterpiece of photography. I was twenty years old. It’s a pretty good picture. It’s perfectly arranged. It’s done through the front window of a moving car, and it’s very geometrical. That’s the cover of The Bikeriders."
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