> Woodworking or motorcycle repair are hard, and the initial setbacks are extremely demotivating. You won't hit the ground running, so you better prepare for disappointment.
This mirrors my experience as well - also there is a dollar cost to each try, and no undo button, which puts more pressure on each attempt.
I still enjoy doing hobby woodworking, but it's not quite as zen in the beginning as I imagined.
The joy of construction comes from the difficulty of combining design thinking with entrepreneurial financial prudence and first principles engineering to overcome obstacles that (often) arise. And then of course, translating these ideas into tangible functional art. It is very much like software engineering, but as you say ; the stakes much higher.
This mirrors my experience as well - also there is a dollar cost to each try, and no undo button, which puts more pressure on each attempt.
I still enjoy doing hobby woodworking, but it's not quite as zen in the beginning as I imagined.