Maumau.
Different way of looking at the same thing probably because of different factors coming into play. If you show working conditions like these to a common worker, it could be a carpenter, a mechanic, a common factory worker, a computer technician, a doctor or an enginer or, speaking of the devil, an airline captain (with quite a few years up there), they are going either to be horrified or laugh at your face.
Show these conditions to a guy in his twenties, pushing himself to be a (airline) pilot, no wife, no kids, not many working experiences (in any field) if none at all, and he is going to tell you that all this (conditions) can, in a way or another, be overcome.
We could talk for pages about this matter... As it's been done a huge number of times.
Buona giornata.