WHY I FIX THINGS

I like fixing things or building stuff, but I don’t know if I’m very passionate about it. 

I’ve built a lot of stuff with people in my family, and I just fix a lot of stuff.

I like the challenge of it and sometimes I can get stumped, but then when I understand it, I understand it, and that stays with me for the rest of my life. If I ever have that problem again, I can fix it, and it’s just always there.

I think there’s a lot of stuff in this world that we can’t control. There’s a lot of elements in my life that I feel like are out of control. When I fix something, I can control whether it’s fixed, built, or broken. When I can fix it, I feel like I can control it … [make it] something that’s stable.

THE FUTURE

I have thought about being like an architect or an engineer. I’m not very smart though, so those usually take some college degrees, which I’m a little nervous about. Also, robots and computers have started doing those jobs easier than humans, which has caused me to [think that it’s] something out of my control [and] that I can’t control whether or not [humans] will be [necessary] when I get a job and continue with my life.

It’s something that I use to calm myself down. I wonder, if I continue with it as a career, it will become less and less helpful to calm me down. It’s just something that I have to do now, not necessarily something that I do to calm me [down].

I do get frustrated with people sometimes because sometimes fixing and building stuff comes easier to me than it does with others. If they don’t understand it, I do get mad, [so I would probably not teach it].

LEGACY

My dad passed it down to me. So, I think if I were to have children I’d probably pass it down to them just cause it made me happy.

 I think it’s more of a coping mechanism than it is a passion. I don’t think I would do it as a career, because I might get tired of it, get really burnt out and it would just cause me more stress than … helping me.