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hamster_nz:
Trying to explained to somebody (a secondary school teacher) that I am not in "the Business of Computing, Coding and Electronics" but the craft of Computing, Coding and Electronics.

Like "a painter (trade)" vs "a painter (artist)"? (not that I am at all an artist).

I'm not doing it for a job, but doing it for pure interest and to satisfy a need to do something challenging and to express my thoughts.

What are the right words for that?

DiTBho:

--- Quote from: hamster_nz on February 11, 2021, 11:21:55 pm ---What are the right words for that?

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OT:

I don't know, last time I had a similar discussion with a couple of persons regarding my job and hobby with computers and digital architectures, it ended I was said "your projects were/are rubbish. you were/are a laughing stock", which hurt me a bit, even because said in public.

So since then I avoid  to explain to somebody the difference between "a painter (trade)" vs "a painter (artist)", and I do what I like to do, or what i need for a living, and I care no more what others do think or say.

I don't think I am an artist, never been an artist, but for sure my "artworks" must have caused some kind of emotional reaction  :-//

hamster_nz:

--- Quote from: DiTBho on February 11, 2021, 11:47:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: hamster_nz on February 11, 2021, 11:21:55 pm ---What are the right words for that?

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OT:

I don't know, last time I had a similar discussion with a couple of persons regarding my job and hobby with computers and digital architectures, it ended I was said "your projects were/are rubbish. you were/are a laughing stock", which hurt me a bit, even because said in public.

So since then I avoid  to explain to somebody the difference between "a painter (trade)" vs "a painter (artist)", and I do what I like to do, or what i need for a living, and I care no more what others do think or say.

I don't think I am an artist, never been an artist, but for sure my "artworks" must have caused some kind of emotional reaction  :-//

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For being OT, that was directly on topic.

All of my projects are useless and of limited utility to anybody but me, but at the same time none of them are worthless and I don't regret making any of them.

Take for example this week's little play of making I2S work on the Pi Pico. It's been done before - but it hasn't been done before by me, and I learned a lot while doing it.

Maybe we are just eccentric, not mad :D

retiredfeline:

--- Quote from: hamster_nz on February 11, 2021, 11:21:55 pm ---I'm not doing it for a job, but doing it for pure interest and to satisfy a need to do something challenging and to express my thoughts.

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Some short phrase equivalent to that sentence? Like: I have fun tinkering?

If they don't understand that, then they don't understand hobbies.

hamster_nz:

--- Quote from: retiredfeline on February 12, 2021, 12:05:03 am ---
--- Quote from: hamster_nz on February 11, 2021, 11:21:55 pm ---I'm not doing it for a job, but doing it for pure interest and to satisfy a need to do something challenging and to express my thoughts.

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Some short phrase equivalent to that sentence? Like: I have fun tinkering?

If they don't understand that, then they don't understand hobbies.

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For me, tinkering has the sound of "playing around the edges". I tend to go full-on "XKCD Crazy straws" on things:


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