The Knowledge Worker and the Manual Laborer

In the knowledge world, you have to be the one that controls it. The idea of a job that i would not have wanted to do is easy to write off if you are not a knowledge worker and you are responding to things that do actually physically need to get done. According to author David Mote, how do you get all these things getting done? And there are people that have to fill out those rolls with jobs that comes with the time. But no matter what industry you happen to be in, there are going to be certain things that you don't have to live your life under stress.