My Dad was a drywall and ceiling carpenter for many years.
He enjoyed doing ceilings and working over his head.
He used to say he'd put up
miles of ceilings.
When you do it everyday the muscle soreness really isn't an issue (until you get in your late 50's - early 60's...).
But he did look tired many days after work sometimes they would work 9 or 10 hour days starting at 5:30 or 6:00.
He had to drive his own vehicle or carpool with someone.
The stressful part was not knowing what the next job would be or if he'd be assigned to one.
But I rarely heard him complain about being sore from work.
Sometimes I felt bad asking him to help me fix something after he got home.
But he rarely turned me down and sometimes I would have to wait.
I'm grateful for his hard work while we were growing up.
Here we built a new door jamb from white pine cut on the back hill a couple years earlier.
