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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
It definitely gives a sense of accomplishment to go home at night, after seeing something concrete that's been created by you own skill. I used to look at the 30 computers I would build in a day, or the stack of repaired equipment that was ready to ship out, and know that I'd done something worthwhile.
Then I became a manager and didn't see that physical manifestation of my own skill. Took some time to wrap my head around the fact that I was still producing, but not in the same way.
Now it's even more abstract because, while I'm still able to see things fixed and know that I've done something concrete, my actual 'product' is educated young people. The computers are just incidental to that.
Sometimes you just have to make something solid, to feel good about what you do.
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Yeah, I'm so much happier working on special projects than I am doing my daily grind for that very reason... Something about zerobasing a department budget, then creating a new budget model from scratch.... or developing a new commission structure... or creating a plan to restructure that makes me want to come back the next morning. Sorta the same thing...
The other part of the fabrication is that I could use it for my hobbies... I'd love to be able to build my own bike or do some robotics projects that I've long since given up on... Sure, I could pay someone to do it, but that's ridiculously expensive and doesn't have that same sense of accomplishment.