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If they have a few hours of training I'm sure a brain surgeon, rocket scientist, or quantum scientist could do any of those things. Lots of educated people understand that the narrow focus of their education doesn't make them good at everything else too. Unfortunately not all educated people understand that, though, and it seems like the over-confident ones get a lot more attentive.
From reports, they're much more likely to quit before the end of the day
Being able to do something, and being willing to do it for other people for minimum wage are two very different things.
Stamina is part of "being able." So pay strawberry pickers more, gotcha.
Or have the physicists alternate days picking berries. It would get them out in the sunshine with plenty of time to think, and on lab days they could stretch out their aching backs by reaching into the top corner of the whiteboard to write equations.