You and me BOTH!!!!!!!
It's probably a terrible think to say - but thank goodness I broke my ankle last year - I've gotten out of all work than involves climbing a ladder. Which is a particularly good thing, considering I'm afraid of heights :)
I spent mostof my life as what I call a 3-H gal (heels, hose, hair)but my father made sure I knew how to do simple stuff like check the oil in my car, change a flat, swing a hammer and unplug a drain.......and also how to paint and hang wallpaper. My husband has taught me a whole lot more :)
We hired the guy to turn up the field not because we couldn't do it - but because I'm running out of time to get stuff in the ground and to do it by hand would have taken us another month....he did it in a couple of hours.
Another job I had in college was in a foundry that broke down big pieces of scrap metal -- car engines, wire, etc. -- into little pieces for smelting. Noisy, dirty, dangerous and toxic as hell -- it was paradise compared to roofing.