• GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world
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    56 countries and counting. No I am not couch or hostel surfing. Full time employee with about 1.5 months of vacay, so we travel a lot to every corner of the world. It’s different looking at things in YouTube vs real life.

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    If you weren’t rich you couldn’t benefit much from “most advanced civilization” at the time. most of the them were really poor and desperate and gave everything just for ticket across the Atlantic with the hope for a better life.

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    Its always a good idea to consult your local fat checker to verify these claims.

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    40 old me looking at a screen with SSMS and Azure: Instead of an engineer like my father I should have been a tailor like my mom… Or a carpenter…

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      It’s never too late to enter carpentry. I know quite a few programmers who do carpentry as their main hobby. Something about the math and the amount of careful planning is highly transferrable, I guess.

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        Nah fuck carpentry. You’ll just end up destroying your body to make shit money.

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          I mean I was referring to having a shop in your garage so you can build furniture, but you’re not wrong. Construction carpentry is one of the more intense trades I’ve seen.

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          This isn’t brick laying or plastering. Carpentry is an easy job on the body.

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            lol what.

            No.

            I work in tech. But (long story) started with a few years of carpentry/joinery. It is not easy on the body, unless you’re just making small boxes or cabinets. And even then, it’s still not really that easy.

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            It can be easy on the body provided one has cash to get and wear safety gear. Too many people depend on a cheap employer for their safety.

            Buy good gear. Use jigs. Protect hearing.

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            US defaultism strikes again, is this carpentry as in building houses or carpentry as in building furniture?

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            If you think carpentry is easy on the body I can tell you’ve never worked for or as a carpenter before.

            In either case carpentry is a massive world. There is a lot more to being a carpenter than making furniture. If that’s all you’re doing as a carpenter than I would argue that you aren’t much of a carpenter and your experience is highly limited.

            To me this is like calling yourself a computer engineer because 2 hours a week you write Visual Basic code in an excel spreadsheet.

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        Whenever I try building something with wood, I get so frustrated that it’s not version controlled. In software, I can fearlessly try dumb stuff because I can just roll it back if it didn’t work.

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          Creating anything physical requires a lot of practice, and practice really only works if you make mistakes and then learn from them.

          Just have to accept that you will waste a lot of wood getting that practice. Heck, a lot of woodworking practice is repetition of the basics before trying to make something with those skills. Otherwise you end up with a bunch of hobbled together ugly stuff that still works like my stuff.

          Not catching very slight warping in boards is my weakness.

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      At 35 I’m beginning to realize it’s good I don’t have an office job. Finnaly found a good employer and happy driving through the country.

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        Honestly I am thankful all the time that people are able to find jobs that suit them best. I am a graphic designer by trade, and working from home has basically been the greatest creative boon I’ve ever had in my life, lol. The routine, access to nature, and just general lack of distractions has been incredible.

      • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        After traveling all over for work, having freedom to somewhat set my own schedule as long as I meet deadlines, I know I would lose my mind in a traditional office.

        There’s not much I hate more work-wise than sitting around after the work is done so you can get your hours, because someone on the crew thinks that’s more moral than leaving and they’re a snitch.

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    i don’t like most people. i don’t like clutter. i don’t like distractions. i don’t like hassles. i don’t need much. i’m with OP.

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    The thing that I hate even more about all this, I could afford to do this. But you are not legally allowed to live on your own land in the UK without planning permission. I think it is vaguely comparable to zoning in the US.

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      We still have parts where you can disappear into the woods and just sort of fuck off forever. Alaska has the Remote Recreational Cabin Site program as a replacement for the Homestead Act and there’s parts of the state so remote you could essentially do whatever you want and nobody would ever know. Provided “whatever you want” involves freezing in the dark wilderness.

      I’m sure some of our other low-density states have similar things going on, and zoning laws vary wildly.

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        Hey hey hey, the wilderness is only dark in the winter and you won’t freeze to death if you don’t get wet and are wearing modern winter coats+snowpants+gloves.

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          I didn’t say to death (I did imply it). I have friends in Juneau but they previously lived in some less hospitable places.

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      Thats what i love about Canada, you can buy land in unorganized townships and can do whatever you want there. The interesting wildlife is just the icing on the cake.

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    This is something I will never understand. You want all of the trappings of civilization without being part of it? You want your cake and to eat it too.

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      Most of civilization isn’t needed for the good parts to exist. The invention of the steam motor should’ve resulted in a ridiculously sharp decline in population, as most labor was no longer needed to feed the population.

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      Right? That kind of mentality is just selfish. It shows that someone doesn’t know how to live with others and wants to make that everyone else’s problem.

      Lol if you want to go live outside of civilization then go ahead; just don’t expect things like electricity, roads, and running water unless you can build it yourself. Facilitating all these antisocial people living out in bumbfuck is a massive drain on resources and fucks things up for the rest of us.

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    I have been working for many years to find the right balance for me.

    Currently, by day I am a software engineer, but in my off time I am basically a recreational farmer — as in keeper of animals, not gardening. Though, plants are often involved in service of the animals.

    I live in suburbia and am pretty ideally located as far as local resources and infrastructure. So I brought a little bit of the wilderness to me. Currently spending a bunch of time on my koi pond.

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    Didn’t the Puritans leave England because they really hated the Catholics and wanted to change the Church of England to not be as Catholic but the government of the day told them to fuck off?

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      The Puritans weren’t the only or even primary colonists, but yes that was their motivation. That and their barbaric faith practices were quite literally illegal… in medieval England of all places. Children weren’t even considered people yet but how the Puritans treated them was bad enough to be made illegal.

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      Yea, kinda.

      More that the Puritans wanted everyone else to confirm to their stricter standards and ethics, and the people at the time were fed up and ran them out.

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    Unfortunately we’re living in a world that no longer has much unowned/unsettled land. Everything has been bought and hoarded by the ultra wealthy.

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      Also homesteads weren’t exactly a great place to be. No infrastructure and tornado heaven. People lived there because it was their only choice.

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      This is why we colonise space, at least the planets without aliens living there.

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      I mean if it would’ve been empty land it could’ve worked likes this. I don’t think genocide is a necessary part of it

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      Also the whole industrialization, privatization, and rise of capitalism thing in Europe that led to successive waves of emigrants leaving or being coerced from their homelands. I think in general people don’t leave their communities and families without some kind of direct or indirect violence.

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    I would love to move to some US state with lots of forested country and go build a cute little homestead. Work part time to buy things I need.

    Mmm…my dream. Also BTW I’m in my early 20’s.

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      Canada has huge tracts of land in the Canadian wilderness.

      get a gun though. the neighbors can be a real bear.

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        same in Alaska, we just call it alaskan wilderness and have for profit healthcare (it sucks, especially mental healthcare).

        The neighbors here seem to moostly avoid confrontation.

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        Yes and no. Lot of cheap land out there, very little in taxes.

        The bigger problem is someone owns the supplies you need to survive, and there’s not a lot of jobs out there to make ends meet.