By the way, as now an "effete" lawyer, I have, for a living, over the years, at different times

Driven a tractor
Picked hops
Collected rent for landlords
Been a fitter's mate
Worked on an assembly line building fluid control valves
Been a labourer in a paper-mill, mostly throwing logs into grinders
Been an agricultural labourer loading bagged corn onto trailers
Been a car body preparer in a spray-shop
Been white-van-man
Been a mobile disk-jockey