In my case I think it's my job that's taking its toll on my health. It doesn't seem like it, but non-spotlit entertainment work is grueling, even ****** on the body at times. One can only work rock 'n roll for so long without it affecting one's life.
Many stagehands can't stay in a relationship for more than a few years because nobody likes to be the partner of a person who spends 18-20 hours a day, 6 days a week at work. That was one major reason for my most recent relationship to have ended. My ex complained that I neither took her out nor spent time with her. When you've been at work 120 of the last 144 hours the last thing on your mind is going on a date. She complained that we didn't make love enough. Well, I'd been hanging motors, pulling chains, and slinging 4 Ø feeder cable all week. When I got home at night my body was beat and I just wanted a shower and *****, preferably in that order.
At times, ***** can be a seldom attainable commodity. Some events require insane amounts of hours of work. For example, a few years ago I did a 4-day run that consisted of Fiona Apple one day (9 am - 1 am), Poison the next day (8 am - 2 am), both stages of Ozzfest (3 am - 2 am), and a second day of Ozzfest at a different venue (4 am - 2 am). That's by far not an uncommon schedule for a stagehand. On runs like that, we resort to high doses of caffeine and other such energy boosters (during the aforementioned run I ingested a total of 33 ******* energy drinks). Some guys, mainly road guys, snort high amounts of **** and speed. I don't do *****, and sometimes can't stay awake on my way home; some of my best ***** has come while I'm going 75 mph on highway 680 at 3 in the morning.
In general, stagehands tend to treat their bodies like crap. Our eating habits are less-than organic-friendly. We eat donuts and ***** coffee all day. Most guys are either chain smokers, or potheads, or both. The nutritional aspect of our lives can be summed up by a t-shirt that I saw a guy wearing one time. It said, "Stagehand Food Groups - Caffeine, Nicotine, Grease, Sugar."
For road guys it's even worse. I've met several road guys that have been on the road for so long they don't have homes; they just have their mail sent to a friend's or relative's address. They generally can't have steady relationships because they're away from home for long periods of time (one guy I knew got a gig on a Rolling Stones tour a few years ago. He walked through his front door one day, and didn't walk back through it for 3 years). The road guys that are married or are in long-term relationships are usually married to girls also on the road. I once worked back-to-back nights with a husband and wife who were each on different tours; she was a sound engineer for the Smashing Pumpkins, he was a sound engineer for Ozzy. They hadn't seen each other in 2 months.
Yes, I do feel my age, or, rather, I feel the age of someone 10 years older than me. I don't know if there have been any studies made on the matter, but I think that stagehands age many times faster than people in other fields.
but like the song, I'll ***** when I'm dead! Weed is better than it used to be, acid ain't, beers about the same, milfs are definitely the sexiest thing on the planet, 75% of porn is boring but you get by on the 25% of crazy ****! If something isn't working hit it, if it still don't work, hit it harder! 
