same, strongly was a great bit in an essay in Wired in mid 1990s (maybe by Po Bronson?) talking about going into a "tech cafe" and he wondered if the weird feeling he got was how cops felt walking into a BDSM club w all the handcuffs and cop hats that's how I feel re "makers"
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they fetishize and make an identity out of something that's ... just part of the day / part of life. I'm not a "maker" when I go weld up some shelving. I don't have (or need, or want) a "community". People cook food. People wash clothes. People make stuff in the workshop. shrug
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Replying to @MorlockP @ShitLordReflex
eh, it's just like knitting circles. I can see why the culture of it would be annoying though
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @ShitLordReflex
also, I've got this PARTICULAR thing where I really dislike people who stick a toe in something and then make it their identity. like...hobby farm LARPer selling 20 cartons of strawberries at the farmer market with a "no farms, no food" bumper sticker. PLEASE hobby != identity
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hobby as central identity has always kinda weirded me out hobbies are things that I do, not things that I am (except in a practical, casual sense like "oh hey do you like reading?" "yeah, I'm a reader")
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @ShitLordReflex
people are, to my taste, often far too eager to quickly and cheaply establish identity hobby as identity is bad, but not the worst consumerism as identity is worst ("weed consumption as identity" is the absolute nadir of this )
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thinking about it, the only descriptor that rises to this level for me is "writer," which isn't exactly my job title but a decent description of my vocation
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mapping vocation to identity seems much more reasonable still not perfect, but reasonable 40 hrs/week x 50 weeks/yr x 2 or 5 or 40 years = heck of a lot of identifying with a thing !
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This scares me, I’ve noticed a progression in my vocation that often peaks at “insufferable asshole” just before retirement. Decades of focusing on picayune details and tight tolerances can’t be good for people skills, and mine weren’t excellent to start.
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I've long thought that software engineer == lawyer now I'm realizing software engineer == lawyer == machinist
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Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly
The old machinist stories are the worst, but often entertaining.
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