Because your work is breaking your body

It wasn’t so bad at first.

You were young and you felt powerful, lifting and shifting the things that needed to be lifted and shifted.

Soon enough, however, you started to get twinges. You were still young, but you were starting to feel old.

Soon enough, you were feeling it every night, the aches that were not the satisfying aches of muscles well exercised, but the foreboding aches of joints over-used, ligaments over-stretched, discs over-compressed.

Now, as you grow older, you feel older still. Your body, which should have lasted so much longer, feels tired, worn, broken.

This is not what you were made for.