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What part of working in an office do you consider grafting?

Take a stone mason for instance, very possibly 6 days a week, 8-10 hours a day of lifting, shaping and building with quarry rock in the cold, rain, wind, etc.

1. lifting a pen
2. lifting the teapot to pour your tea
3. reading reports
4. surfing the web (when the boss is'nt looking)

all bloody hard work wot

I take it they don't have to do all their weeks work in 90 minutes though?

There is no comparison in the types of work between each one. They are both hard in their own right but one is far better compensated than the other.

That's what they tell you, but do you not have reservations or doubts based on your own experiences? I've done 6 day weeks before doing manual work, ran to the gym & back every other night and put it in a good 2hrs whilst I was there. I still felt just as fresh the next day, and this went on for almost 3 years and I had 1 or 2 damn good drinking sessions per week as well. I didn't have the whole summer off and I didn't get some weeks off because I wasn't 'picked'.
I don't see how professional athletes can genuinely suffer tiredness as much as we're led to believe. I reckon they do no more than 4 hours training in a day, for no more than 4 days of the week.

Whether they play 2 times a week or not doesn't have anything to do with what they earn, else Messi and Ronaldo should play 5 times a week. They are not paid for the number of hours of hard work they do but what they can contribute in a match for the team to win.

I have rarely heard any player not willing to play a game, usually it's the manager who takes the decision of resting a player, either because he is not fit or is not going to be fit enough in the next match.

Now, a lot of posts here are commenting the wages of players and this to me is another subject. I cannot blame players to earn that kind of money as it's not their making, it's again according to the economics of offer and demand.

Having played a different field sport but at a high level and training similar levels to professional athletes I can tell you that you do get exhausted. You can train constantly and not be bad but once you play a match, you feel the effects of that the next day and without a proper break you are heavy legged for 2/3 days after.