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The Toll It Takes On Your Body
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Posted over 2 years ago Sitting at a desk all day has made my hip flexers painfully tight! I tried doing sit ups about a week ago and my left hip was in so much pain I couldn't sit up!!!! The trainer told me that I needed to get up every hour and walk around and that I needed to stretch while I was at it. I have been doing this in the woman's bathroom every couple hours and it has definitely helped. Also, I feel like by the end of the day my eyes hurt from looking at the screen for so many hours in a row. Granted, I LOOOVE my job :) |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Not sure if this counts as "toll" on my body, but since I started working in tech full-time I haven't had time to work on my tan :>( I'm getting that techie pasty-face look. Ha! |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Wendell said: Turn up the "bright" setting on your monitor, and make sure you're using at least 24-bit color settings, Wendell. It will help! Really!... OK, maybe not. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago After work, my back is usually aching and my eyes are a little glossy. At least I don't have carpal tunnel yet. Might need to get an ergonomics guy into the office to fix my back though... |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Having to crawl under people's desks is hazardous. I have been stick with staples many times (not life-threatening, but annoying, anyway), and had my had gouged by a framing strenghtening bracket (nasty little teeth on that thing). |
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| Posted over 2 years ago I've seen a lot of back problems over the years. Lift with your legs, not with your back! |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I think the worst times is when you have been at it for so long and there is so much eyestrain that you temporarily go blind. I've had this happen....it's annoying and sad. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I spend most of my time in front of the computer. I almost always work overtime (voluntarily) from 9am up to 11pm. Sometimes, I still think of work at home. It's really tiring... But sometimes I can't help it because I love what I'm doing, even though I know it will take toll on my health someday... |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Due to working long hours, I frequently get headaches and backaches. That's why I always have an pain reliever / ointment nearby. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I've been working as a Fabricator-Operator for a manufacturing company for a year and a half as a permenant employee. After a 10 hour shift of feeding steel into a machine, I always have lots of aches and pains. On November 3, 2007, I started having aches and pains in the middle of my shift. Thinking I'd pulled a muscle in my chest, I reached for the box of Goody's Powders, then went back to work.... The next day, Saturday, the pain was getting worse, so I went to the E.R... Turns out, it wasn't 'aches and pains' from work... it was a heart attack, and taking the Goody's had saved my life. The result? 5 stents in my heart, and I'm still waiting on the Doc to release me back to work. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I drink massive amounts of coffee. Usually i don't get headaches tho, but when i do its usually not a problem. I give everyone the evil eye and they just go away. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I have heard of exercizing at work, like say you are on a call you can walk around your cubicle while on the phone. Walking in place or in small squares will still help you get fit. There is also a website that shows you work outs you can do in the cubicle, i dont have the site off hand but im sure you can google it.
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| Posted about 1 year ago I'm working helpdesk now, so I can't stand staring at the screen for long hours at a time (probably why I take tons of smoke breaks, nah I'm just a nicotine feen). I used to work deskside and that was nice for moving around. Although I drank at least 3 rockstars a day to keep myself going and the crash at the end of the day killed me. I used to have an ergonomic keyboard, but that was when I barely spent time at the desk. I loved the on-site stuff. Now that I work helpdesk I try to excercise daily (unless I have a cool Wii game, than I sit on my butt and play that for 4 hours haha ;-) . The excercise will help. The stretching during the workday helps greatly. Dieting also helps me keep my energy level up. Going to Mcdonalds for lunch and coming back and sitting at a desk for 4 more hours takes its toll on me. Eat better, stretch regularly, and blink every once in a while and that should help a bit! |
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| Posted 7 months ago Narcotics will get you by for a time.... but seriously, I ended the job before it ended me. IT is about the worst for health issues. It is why most of the people over 35 are either in management or have left for another career path (carpentry?). The mental workout with the ever more complex systems and software is so taxing that it will destroy the body and the mind. I was on the phone with a contract recruiter who just wouldn't shut up. He had 3 heart attacks and 2 strokes. I asked his age and he said 38. I advised the idiot to quit his job and move out to the country. He whined about the cost of his home, wife, kids...etc. My one reply was "what good is your job if your dead?" He said he was insured for that. I just shook my head and let it be. A sign of our time that we kill ourselves for a piece of software/hardware that will be replaced in less than a year. What's the point? |
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| Posted about 1 month ago I try to work out during my lunch hour at least four days per week. That has helped me A LOT. I also get up and away from the desk every 1 to 2 hours. I'm on the third floor of my building, so when I get up, I'll go to the stair case, walk all the way down to the ground floor, then turn around and walk back up. #1, it gets me away from the desk for about 5 to 10 minutes; #2, it keeps the blood flowing to my legs; and #3, my back and knees don't hurt NEARLY as much as they would if I sat in this darn chair for the entire 8 hours... |
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| Posted about 1 month ago I would have to say the one thing i've noticed the most, is that outside of the gym, no physical work whatsoever, unless you count picking up rack mount servers.
Not to mention that Im in front of the screen so much that the eyestrain begins to hurt
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| Posted 26 days ago Hey, save yourself the cost of a gym. Bench press the servers instead! Sorry, couldn't resist |
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| Posted 25 days ago Eye-strain, weight gain, back pain! |
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| Posted 25 days ago spankipie says ...
Sounds like a good title for a Techie Country song! "Eye-strain, weight gain, back pain! That's the life for me! My gal done left me for another geek, And stole my OS CD!" |
