LOL No, it's not too physically tough these days. It's a ton of responsibility and stress. While it's not all that hard, any deviation from the rules/regulations is damning. There's no such thing as an engineer that made repeated mistakes.
You also gotta know a whole lot, for the myriad of hings that can go wrong. But, the day to day operation is so mundane that you have to press a button every five minutes to prove you're not asleep. At the same time, when things go wrong they can go wrong REALLY badly.
I wouldn't want the job.
It might be fun for a day or a week!
I have shoveled coal and controlled the valves on an old steam train.
I actually paid money to be able to do that... That's kinda backwards, really...
How do you heat your house? Oil, gas, natural gas, wood, or electricity?
Natural gas heats my home.
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