Which work is harder: mental or physical?

Depends on the evaluation criteria. If you take from a personal example, life reviled me both in construction sites and in warehouses, and despite physical fatigue, I still found the strength in myself, for training, for any kind of training, but I was never so exhausted as after Have a good day of programming, on the one hand, all the coffee \ youtube \ toys, and on the other hand, sometimes in the sprint there are such tasks that by the evening the strength remains only for lying on the couch and sticking into some sitcom

I would say it differently. Our body tends to adapt, and therefore it will adapt to any work, you just have to show diligence and develop a habit.
Usually the first month of hard work is the most difficult, whether it is weightlifting or preparing for exams. And this is understandable, because you have left your comfort zone, you have a certain load that forces your body to produce energy. This is because you need to warm up, like any new technique. Surely you noticed that after working for a while, for example, the headphones began to produce a cleaner sound, and the bass began to hammer better. This is because they are warmed up. Our body also needs to be warmed up, this is the adaptation to any kind of stress, moving from complex to habitual. Later, you yourself will push the bar higher and higher, because work for you becomes easy and routine, and you crave progress. Something like this. ▅ ▆

Well, it depends on which one. The physical labor of riding a bike is much more fun than the mental labor of writing an accompanying text to the concept of a corporate calendar for a metalworking office. And vice versa - the mental labor of composing a computer toy mechanic is much easier than the physical labor of digging a ditch.

Physical )))))))

Polina, after a couple of years in the naval construction battalion there is no doubt)

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