Do diferent jobs make you more tolerant to pain or safety?

[urban genie]

Just mentioned it on my gilet thread but being a chef the old asbestos finger guff rings true.

I have been sliced, skewered, burnt, steamed etc hundreds of time in the last 30 years and my tolerance to heat and cold (stock taking/preping in freezees for up to an hr at a time) seems to be more than those not in that trade, even today I picked up a heated plate like nowt gave it to the customer who bearly dropped it as too hot

also I have worked with people who needed to walk the edges of buildings or hang off balconies unharnessed.

So does your job change your tollerance/adaptability to thing others would feel pain/fear doing

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

I can also vouch for the Chef heat resistance. I put it down to the massive callusses (not a word I've ever wrote down before sorry if spelt wrong) you get from all the chopping and carrying stock pans.

 

[dickie davies]

I worked in sales on the road travelling up to 40,000 miles a year, then started another sales job which was more office based and my mileage more than halved
It was very noticeable how my driving habits changed and how much slower I was on the motorway

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Spent 10 years as a chef in a previous live and could quite easily take meat and veggies out of boiling water or stock by hand. I drew the line once at removing cooked beef joints from the oven with a damp tea towel, the pain was excrutiating and the beef joints went skating across the work surface and straight out of the window, 23 storeys up. I think it's a mind over matter thought process.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Not for me, unless you count tolerance to thick cunts

 

[bluebc]

I worked in sales on the road travelling up to 40,000 miles a year, then started another sales job which was more office based and my mileage more than halved
It was very noticeable how my driving habits changed and how much slower I was on the motorway

Since becoming a taxi driver 5 years ago I rarely going a fraction over 70 on the motorway
Also more tolerant of sitting in traffic , probably because I’ve no choice
Will never be tolerant of boy racers weaving in and out of traffic

 

[Tuearts right boot]

There has to be a few resident * arsonists with the odd tale to tell.....



* see insurance assesors

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Beed in education for 10.5 years and my tolerance to papercuts is still minimal.

 

[Scottyboi]

Building work had my hands like leather, could run a stanley blade across my palms and be sweet.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Not for me, unless you count tolerance to thick cunts

Not big dicks?