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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
(alinpanaitiu.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15205399
Really cool blog post with beautiful photos and starts with a fun and interesting intro, here captured in an image for the the tl;dr but-want-to-comment-anyway among you :
I have an outdoors job (biology/ecology), it's not extreme lmao, although when I go hiking with my tech friends it does seem like maybe it is extreme to them. Your body adapts to what you do. I do office work some days and outdoors work others, and my mental health after more outdoors days just is like exponentially better. I feel connected to nature, I am using my body, I'm touching and smelling and seeing novel things every day. And in my case, doing something that I truly believe matters.
I enjoy my office days, I get to do planning, mapping, data analysis ... but I wouldn't be caught dead using all my mental energy to stare at a screen every day lol
Not for me, I despise the Big Blue Room.
Why? Honestly, what do you dislike about being outside?
I don't specially dislike it, but everybody talks about the outdoor like the thing they cannot live without. I... actually thrived during COVID, I wasn't force to tolerate idiots and I didn't need to leave my house. I didn't really feel the need to see the external world.
That's not the same thing, I go outdoors constantly and don't see people. What you have isn't a dislike of the outdoors, it's agoraphobia.
Nope. I don't have a panic reaction when I go outside (and now I go daily to the office, because it's near and more confortable than my house). I just don't have the Nature fetish some people do.
In my country I went to see the Iguazú falls and my reaction was "Huh. Nice."
You kind of seem like the most insufferable person imaginable so honestly, cool. Stay inside by yourself.
And you seem USian, so please, kill each other once for all and stop destroying other countries for profit.