An Honest Day's Walk

The Apple Watch reminds wearers to stand up every hour because sitting on one's keister for long stretches is harmful to one's health. Even better than standing is walking, which for even short intervals confers significant health benefits:

Research showed that walking for less than two hours a week was linked to a lower mortality rate for all causes compared to being completely sedentary. Walking two and a half to five hours a week showed a 20 percent lower mortality risk.

Walking was also linked to specific types of lower mortality risks, for example, walking more than six hours a week was linked to a 35 percent lower mortality risk from respiratory disease.

If one finds an $11.50-per-hour wage acceptable, the perfect job from a moderate-physical-activity point of view is to be part of Amazon's army of seasonal workers. One blogger describes the experience: [bold added]

There were 4 jobs available: stowing, picking, packing, quality assurance (QA). Each job has it’s own pros and cons and physical challenges. I was a Stower. My job was to place items onto the shelves so they could later be picked after being ordered, and then packaged and shipped out. I averaged 5 miles of walking a day, plus a lot of lifting and repetitive motion with my arms. I didn’t do these other jobs, but from what I gather from coworkers; Pickers walk more than 13 miles a day, Packers stand in 1 spot all day, and QA has to kneel and sit a lot. Each job has a quota to fulfill.

At the cafeteria in Campbellsville, KY (daveandkathy2011)

A significant subset of Amazon's seasonal labor is known as CamperForce, workers who live in recreational vehicles (RVs):

Many of the workers who joined Camper­Force were around traditional retirement age, in their sixties or even seventies. They were glad to have a job, even if it involved walking as many as 15 miles a day on the concrete floor of a warehouse. From a hiring perspective, the RVers were a dream labor force. They showed up on demand and dispersed just before Christmas in what the company cheerfully called a “taillight parade.” They asked for little in the way of benefits or protections. And though warehouse jobs were physically taxing—not an obvious fit for older bodies—recruiters came to see Camper­Force workers’ maturity as an asset. These were diligent, responsible employees. Their attendance rates were excellent.

Bankrupt in 2008, they live in an RV  (Wired)

Seniors who are part of CamperForce likely have had some bad breaks; living in an RV and having to take seasonal work to supplement Social Security and Medicare could not have been the "golden years" they envisioned.

Many had seen their retirement savings vanish in the stock market or had lost homes to foreclosure. Others had watched businesses go under or grappled with unemployment and ageism. A larger number had become full-time RVers or vandwellers because they could no longer afford traditional housing—what they called “sticks and bricks.” They talked about how Social Security wasn’t enough to cover the basic necessities and about the yoke of debt from every imaginable source: medical bills, maxed-out credit cards, even student loans.

Nevertheless, the fact that they persist in trying to make a go of it is inspirational to this observer.

Apple Watch would approve, but I'm sure they don't care.