Children who grew up teaching themselves because nobody had time to teach them often become adults who are extraordinarily competent and quietly resentful that their independence was born from neglect rather than choice
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The skills that make you the person everyone relies on might be the same ones that quietly remind you nobody showed up when you needed them to.

Does anyone else see themselves in this article?

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    But I definitely am left with the feeling that if I can’t handle something, someone else will either do it incompetently or not think to do it at all.

    In my many decades of experience, the only people who can do it competently are going to charge a fuck of a lot of money for their time, and even with an expensive contractor, it’s 60:40 they’ll do it right.

    Mechanics will replace the entire cooling loop and sensors in a car to make an extra grand. HVAC techs will charge you an extra Benjamin to replace a contractor along with the capacitor, just in case it was a problem.