Amen to that!
Hell, I'm a doctor and I am in awe of some of these handymen.
They analyze the situation, come up with a solution, and fix the problem.
I simply don't have that knowledge or skills, so I pay them handsomely to do that for me.
If I had it to do over again, I would have never gone the MD route.
Too much time to get trained, and in the end you are up to your eyeballs in debt, and in my case, I don't make that much money for the cost in life-years lost.
If I'd become an electrician, I'd probably have a million dollars in the bank and owned my own business.
Maybe even nearing retirement.
But I can now never retire.
Took a one year deferral on my entry after being accepted into med school to take some time out for aviation and engineering research related activities and ended up abandoning med school entirely
Everyone thought I was crazy at the time but can’t complain about how it worked out.
Probably had more positive impact on medical field apply aerospace tech and blue collar fabrication skills to bio med engineering than I ever would have had as a doc
America really needs to re develop a new respect for the hard working men ( and women) who get their hands dirty and actually make things happen In our society