I’m more intellectually inclined than mechanical, which is why I’m a designer and not a linemen.
Being accident prone is a bad thing as a linemen.
I enjoyed some of the hands on work I did in University though.
There’s something to visual completion of a task.
I get a sense of satisfaction from it. I can say to myself, I did that. I accomplished something. I have also found it is helpful when my business as a broker has sucked. During the Great Recession I needed something outside of work to feel like I had accomplished something that day. When I went through a divorce in 1991, I spent a couple years finishing off the second floor of my house by myself. It gave me something to concentrate on.
Along that accomplishment line here is my most recent project.
I have four solid redwood Adirondack chairs I built in the 1990s. I sanded them(4 hours). Reglued and screwed several of the joints. Primed them with BIN Shelac primer(another 3-4 hrs). Then painted them with three coats of Sherwin Williams Urethane gloss White enamel paint($70/gallon). Each coat took another 3-4 hours for the 4 chairs. I did this over the last month or so when we have had all of these rainy weekends here in NH.
It would have been cheaper to just go buy new chairs. Especially when I considered my labor. Now, they should last another 30+ years.