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There are no direct health risks. What hits you in old age is not programming but bad habits - bad posture when sitting, too much sitting and not enough physical activity and excercising, and others. Those are possible to offset or fix. Comparing to manufacturing where you have same or similar bad habits as well as direct health risks of something or somebody accidently hurting you. Programming therefore can be considered to be without health risks.



My worst injury wasn't from the rugby or the skiing or the swimming; it was from the mouse: frozen shoulder. There are health risks.




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