Comment

Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income?

MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Hey fellow laborer. Loved your comment but I just want to say there are many different kinds of intelligence. Don’t call yourself an idiot. Working with tools effectively is a kind of intelligence for sure. I’ve seen a person who seemed incapable of operating a screwdriver, but he was a network engineer. I wish I’d known I was good at it much earlier in life.

source

Sort:hotnew top

GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Something got up my spine when I was 18 to where, I didn’t just dislike depending on Best Buy to work on my PC, I loathed it, and at the time, it wasn’t even because I was into computers. I saw the bill, saw the work, put two and two together and couldn’t believe I paid two teenagers to play Legos with my tower for the cost of a… then, PS3.

this is the work, huh?

Then one day at an auto shop…

you’re gonna do it yourself? You’ll break it. You can’t do it.

You can’t do it

teeth add 5 years of wear

“I can’t… do it? Eh?”

Every day since, I’ve been… doin’ it, in spite.

source
- MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Righteous.
  
  source
- GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Good on you, my friend. This is inspirational.
  
  source
boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean they also mentioned “knowing how to do as many different possible things as I can”, which to me sounds like a person who’s flexible and a fast learner. These are properties that can’t be taught, maybe not even learned with experience. And super valuable.

source
- naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  There might be elements that can’t be learned, but there are plenthy that can. A lot of it is just attitude. Perserverence and a willingness to acknowledge and learn from your mistakes and not get too frustrated when things break, I’d say that’s 90% of it.
  
  source
  - boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    [deleted]
    source
    naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You might be right. Personally it doesn’t seem that way to me, but ultimately people end up wherever they end up, and it’s often hard to disentangle why.
    
    One thing that does seem different in those skills that you mentioned, is that drawing and singing are creative/artistic, which means that there’s no “correct” outcome. If you fuck up fixing a car, it doesn’t work, and you have the immediate and direct feedback that you’ve done it wrong.
    
    With drawing or singing, if you do it wrong, you only really have your self-image and personal aesthetics to answer to. You can get really good and still hate everything you do, and there’s no way someone can show you that you’re objectively wrong, because it’s a taste thing. OTOH you can do it technically “badly” forever, but like what you do, and if you stick with it enough, then maybe you just made a new style of art.
    
    source