Hard Labor/Hard work, opinion on differences?

[Felicity_Tide]

I've got this feeling that doing hard labor doesn't mean working hard, wrong or right?

Of course, you're right. Even without a dictionary, common sense should be enough to figure this out.
A hard labour type of job demands hardwork_(mandatory), but the pay can either be good or as hard as the job itself.
We even see this in our society these days. People working their ass off, doing difficult tasks that wear them out both physically, emotionally, and mentally. And the ugly thing is... Not all hard labour pays well.

I think at the end of the day, you just don't want to find yourself doing any hard labour Job that pays a penny. Those two things literally don't go together, because that's another definition of suffering.

[Swordsoffreedom]

I've got this feeling that doing hard labor doesn't mean working hard, wrong or right?

Edit: Hard labor explained as may not be understandable at first.

My understanding of hard labor, it means work that requires 100% energy before getting a good result. They work that pays less but requires much effort. I may be wrong, but this is what I understand from hard labor. Hard work means putting more effort into what we do to achieve more or attain greater heights. With hard work, the result is not as usual; it is always better than the normal expectation.

I agree with you that hard labor is work that requires 100% energy. But saying that all hard labor comes with low pay is not entirely accurate. There are still manual labor jobs that can provide a high income, but sometime they require experience and carry significant risk.

Oil rig divers, offshore pipeline welder, and nuclear power plant demolition worker all have physically demanding jobs and are classified as hard labor. Most of them earn very high incomes. However, as mentioned, this job requires experience and also carries many risk.

[Etranger]

Oil rig divers, offshore pipeline welder, and nuclear power plant demolition worker all have physically demanding jobs and are classified as hard labor. Most of them earn very high incomes. However, as mentioned, this job requires experience and also carries many risk.

Representatives of such professions can indeed earn a decent living, but it depends heavily on the country where they work. For instance, in Ukraine, these people do not earn much, much like any specialist working for the local economy. We are experiencing a very strong shift where people oriented toward foreign companies earn significantly more than "locals", even if their work is objectively less skilled. For example, I believe that a nuclear power plant demolition worker requires much greater commitment, education, skills, and level of responsibility than a video content creator. However, if you take the example of two people from Ukraine, the latter job allows Ukrainians to earn much more than working at a nuclear power plant.

[Halifat]

I've got this feeling that doing hard labor doesn't mean working hard, wrong or right?

Edit: Hard labor explained as may not be understandable at first.

My understanding of hard labor, it means work that requires 100% energy before getting a good result. They work that pays less but requires much effort. I may be wrong, but this is what I understand from hard labor. Hard work means putting more effort into what we do to achieve more or attain greater heights. With hard work, the result is not as usual; it is always better than the normal expectation.

I agree with you that hard labor is work that requires 100% energy. But saying that all hard labor comes with low pay is not entirely accurate. There are still manual labor jobs that can provide a high income, but sometime they require experience and carry significant risk.

Oil rig divers, offshore pipeline welder, and nuclear power plant demolition worker all have physically demanding jobs and are classified as hard labor. Most of them earn very high incomes. However, as mentioned, this job requires experience and also carries many risk.

I think what Agbamoni is trying to explain here is that, the kind of payment they have been offer depends on the particular organization or where they are working, these people you just mentioned are earning nothing compared to what the people above them are earning. Laborers payment is not the same thing, it varies depends on the organization they are working which was the reason why I will disagree with you, because people that are working in all the places you mentioned, which are offer appointments based on their certificate definitely their earnings will be far higher than what hard laborers are earning. This is how it is in every organization's, the laborers are been pay less compared to what people above them are Collecting.