Edit: tell me this doesn’t sound stupid

There is only two types of jobs:

Doing something someone else doesn’t want to do

Or

Doing something a specific other person can’t do

The only thing I can think of that someone other than myself can’t do is piss my wife off to no end. Not really a job, tho.

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Let me just quit my day job and learn the electrical code to install that new breaker panel I need. Gotta brush up on the gas fitting code too cause my furnace needs work. Then ill drive myself to the hospital where i will be my own nurse and my own surgeon.

The ability to learn is also linked with time, energy, and accessibility to resources.

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So… that’s the point. You don’t want to do all that…

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I would love to be able to become a master of all trades. I cant put food on my table consistently unless I stick to one.

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But you don’t really want to because that would be really hard.

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What if it takes 100 years for you to train for the job? So if you tried and failed, does it count as “not wanting to do that”?

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