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At a training, a therapist said approx: "If you're going into therapy as a career, I highly recommend picking up a hobby like woodworking. You can't control how things go for your clients, so you need a different outlet for satisfying self-directed progress."
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Yeah exaaaactly Man I need something like this in my life id be so psyched if I could find like a part time job chopping wood and carrying water, let alone building things
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quarantine is enforced training montage. there has to be a way to move towards this goal... start fermenting stuff? buy broken appliances and figure out how to repair them? build a structure... somewhere? I don't know I'm a useless computer guy, hopefully you get the idea
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There's something powerfully to viscerally being able to fix things with your hands and get immediate feedback on both if it works, and how useful it was to others. This is a great article on the aesthetic:
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