IamA electronics repair technician hated by Apple that makes YouTube videos, AMA!

I liked your comment, and yeah I have always seen this type of mentality with friends my age. I am not trying to boast myself, but people who fix things themselves are really a select few nowdays and I really think its more to just about your upbringing (Of course, some things I would prefer someone else to fix, as we all do). People that I know always think you need to be qualified to do this and that, yet the internet with all of the information in the world exists. It is easier THAN EVER in the world to learn to do things yourself. I have friends who's first thought is to take their car to a mechanic when their tail/brake/turning signal lights go out instead of going down to an autoparts store literally a couple blocks away and picking up the damn bulb and learning how to open their trunk and replace the bulbs. I just don't understand the mentality. The other day I was repairing my own car and things didn't go as planned, broke a couple things by accident and when I explained to my friends why I couldn't join them the next day it was that I shouldn't have been trying to be a mechanic. Things like that just enrage me, there is a truth to it, but I am not trying to rebuild an engine, just trying to screw in some fucking bolts. Now that requires me to be a mechanic to do?

I really think this is just by upbringing. My parents were born in a poor forien country (and also different time period of course) where such a BS idea of "you need to have a degree/qualification to do this" did not exist. If they had a problem they had to figure out a way to fix it, no money to pay someone else to do it. I have always noticed my parents were a "try to fix yourself first" before getting professional help and they know how to fix/do so many things in so many different fields it amazes me. They know about electronics, cars, building garages/shacks. Not a single degree or attendance of college either.

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