- Joined
- Jan 31, 2022
I live and work in a bughive (not for much longer, bank can go ahead and own me for a few years if it means I get my plot of land). Thankfully I grew up with a father and grandfather (shit I've given away that I'm probably asian or white, hope that's not too much power level) who both knew and had the inclination to fix shit. The bugmen are amazed when I do simple shit like change a tire, or fix a cabinet door. If they saw some of the home improvement shit I've jerry-rigged together, their insect minds might decide I'm some kind of god.I always looked up to how handy my grandpa was. Being handy and resourceful, having the ability to improvise, adapt, and overcome, has been one of my enduring life aspirations.
What amazes me is that this knowledge is not hard to come by on the online, they've just never had handyman shit role-modelled for them, so they view all manual labour as alien and something to pay the strange goblin-man to do. Thanks to all dads and grampses for letting us hold the ladder and fetch tools when we were babby.