Skill(s) you wish you were better at?

zitothebrave

zitothebrave

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Everyone has skills they're good at, or great at. But what skills do you wish you were better at.

THere's 2 that come to mind for me. Handyman stuff and cable management.

For handyman stuff, I'm accetable. I can do the basics but the second anything becomes a bit more complex I'm on a limb. For example, I'm trying to figure out through reverse engineering how our business's electrician extended outlets so effectively (he turned an outlet into track lights for example) like looking at it I think I get the concept but the second I read about it my brain starts jumbling. My FiL is a decent electrician and will help me do it when he's not recovering from Achilles surgery. But I wish I could jsut do it. Similar to plumbing I wish I was a tiny bit better at plumbing. I'm OK at it but most of what I know is via brewing. But the second something touches a hot water heater or goes into a wall or behind an appliance my brain shuts off. Similar to outdoor ****. I wish I knew how to be better with wood working and things like that. I'd love to demo my deck and build a patio. But I know I'd **** it up. Either it wouldn't be safe or it would be cockeyed. Just **** like that. Which I know part of it is experience. If I were to build something that wasn't permenant I'd get better then eventually could build a deck or if I just build a deck with minimal cuts (using standard length 2x4 etc.) But to me it's a bit of a foreign concept.

Cable management is something I don't get. I've tried and I constantly fail. Best thing I can do for cable management is hide them in something. Earlier this year we rearranged the living room and hung up our TV and set atmospheric lighting behind it. But there were a bunch of ugly cables hanging everywhere. The best I was able to do to resolve it was hit a few in a conduit and zip tie the others together. Someone who really knows cable management would have figured out how to exactly do it and it would have looked great. And I'm shocked. We won't talk about the mess that is my computer setup. We just won't even look at that.
 
Handyman stuff is the first thing that came to my mind too. I can do small stuff like replace light fixtures, minor plumbing, drywall repair, etc. But there are so many projects I want to do but don't trust myself on.

I've also had a very hard time finding a handyman that's competent and willing to do the job. Either they come in and hurt more than help or else the jobs are too small for their time.

I'm currently trying to convince my wife to let me put down LVP flooring in our basement. I'm confident I can do it but I don't think she's as confident lol
 
I've done some LVP it's not hard aside from rounding (which a good trim can deal with rough cuts) I just hate doing flooring, roofing, etc. because it's lots of bend over work which I hate as a giant.

My basement sucks. Ancient house with field stone basement that's only about 8 feet high so all the plumbing and heating ducts are head height for me. If I was forced to stay in my house for some reason the one thing I'd want to change is the basement. I never will deal with it because it's hundreds of thousands to redo the foundation, but I'd love if my foundation went 4 feet deeper and was concrete. Field Stone just sucks. WHich in NH having a good basement is kind of key to keeping your house decent temp in the winter.

Instead we're looking at getting another house later, we got our hosue in 2016 and our house value has doubled at least since then, and that's without us spending money doing various repairs. Then we'd probably be closer to 2.5 times. But any new house would be a highe rmortgage plus the initial repair fees you need etc.

So we're debating things. One of them was like I said above Deck Work and patio. Especially if we couple that patio with a small gazebo type of thing for our cooking area. As we have a bunch of out door cooking things (Traeger, Weber, Ooni, and Blackstone) that running an outlet and coving would make it better.
 
I am awful at handyman stuff and after building two new properties, am paying the price for my retardation when it comes to anything more difficult than beyond hanging a picture

Gonna teach my kids to invest heavy in this area. This is where the next batch of millionaires will be made
 
sturg33 said:
I am awful at handyman stuff and after building two new properties, am paying the price for my retardation when it comes to anything more difficult than beyond hanging a picture

Gonna teach my kids to invest heavy in this area. This is where the next batch of millionaires will be made
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To be fair if there was a good use for AI and AR it would be in a set of AR glasses that can look at a problem and diagnose it and tell you how to fix it. For example as the weather changed here my door now isn't closing AI would be able to theorize as to why it isn't working based on looking at the door perhaps with some references (level, measuring tape/reference like 8x11 sheet of paper or 8x8 box or something like that) could be like :Maybe your door is slightly tilted Try screwing in the top hinge in tighter to make the door level. Would you like to watch a video of someone doing it? Would you like step by step instruction on the screen?"

Biggest flaw I can see is of course mislabled **** and liability. Like if an electrician wired something wrong and the white isn't the Neutral but is the hot how is liability resolved with that.

BTW I definitely didn't use that example because I was just doing it with my door and getting mad.
 
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