The other day I was sitting around a conference table with some colleagues and realized that I - at 5’11", 147.5 pounds - had the heaviest body composition of anyone there. This is an entirely sedentary occupation, and there is no reason for people involved to be extraordinarily in shape.
Other occupational groups, and even departments of the same institution, seem to be exactly the opposite: everyone is overweight.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Is there some sort of correlation between metabolic makeup and vocational inclination?
Sure, as a faculty member in a business school the cause is quite obvious to me. They pay nearly everyone more than they pay philosophers and therefore you poor ‘thinkers’ cannot afford to get fat… Not too mention all that worrying you do about Hegel and Habermas… don’t get me started on Sartre.
We business school folks, on the other hand, are lard-asses (I am also 5’11" and a porky 168lbs… burrrrpppp)
“The other day I was sitting around a conference table with some colleagues and realized that I - at 5’11”, 147.5 pounds - had the heaviest body composition of anyone there. "
Are you kidding?! Unless you’re 15 you’re freakishly skinny!
Check out the occupational listing at any ironman event. It’s all over the board, except one thing… they all have money to burn. You don’t see many Unemployed or Underemployed individuals.
The other day I was sitting around a conference table with some colleagues and realized that I - at 5’11", 147.5 pounds - had the heaviest body composition of anyone there. This is an entirely sedentary occupation, and there is no reason for people involved to be extraordinarily in shape.
Are you saying that everyone else was even thinner than you? Sounds like the whole department needs to have a standing reservation at Outback Steakhouse and use it often.
at 5’11", 147.5 pounds - had the heaviest body composition of anyone there.
Your wording, “body composition” may be misleading depending on the intent of your statement.
At 5’11" and 148 pounds, I was the heaviest member of my college XC team. That was probably the last setting where I was the heaviest person, job or no job. In our society (in the US at least) there are not many places where adults assemble that 148 is the heaviest (if that is what you mean my “body composition”) person. In your case, a sample size of 5-10 people is probably not predictive of any occupational group outside obvious groups like “elite female marathon runners.”
My son is 5’11" and 135 pounds - he is a 14 yr old runner though . . .
**Homer: **I’m looking for something loose and billowy, something
comfortable for my first day of work.
**Salesman: ** Work, huh? Let me guess. Computer programmer, computer
magazine columnist, something with computers?
**Homer : **Well, I use a computer.
**Salesman: ** Yeah, what’s the connection? Must be the
non-stop sitting and snacking.
Not too mention all that worrying you do about Hegel and Habermas… don’t get me started on Sartre.