My day job, typing code into a computer, is beyond the understanding of everyone in my family. There’s nothing I can show them really when they ask me what it is I do.
But fixing the microwave? That they can see and understand. It gives me great enjoyment building and repairing physical things. So call it my hobby.
How do you decide when to pay someone and what to do yourself?
I could also change the oil in my car and rotate the tires myself, but I decided long ago I was tired of dealing with that mess/hassle, so that I pay someone else to do. (Annoyingly I have to mark the tires to make sure they rotate them correctly. Sometimes I do things myself because it’s so hard to find competent people these days it seems.)
But fixing the microwave? That they can see and understand. It gives me great enjoyment building and repairing physical things. So call it my hobby.
How do you decide when to pay someone and what to do yourself?
I could also change the oil in my car and rotate the tires myself, but I decided long ago I was tired of dealing with that mess/hassle, so that I pay someone else to do. (Annoyingly I have to mark the tires to make sure they rotate them correctly. Sometimes I do things myself because it’s so hard to find competent people these days it seems.)