Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months agoI have an outdoors job (biology/ecology), it’s not extreme lmao, although when I go hiking with my tech friends it does seem like maybe it is extreme to them. Your body adapts to what you do. I do office work some days and outdoors work others, and my mental health after more outdoors days just is like exponentially better. I feel connected to nature, I am using my body, I’m touching and smelling and seeing novel things every day. And in my case, doing something that I truly believe matters.
I enjoy my office days, I get to do planning, mapping, data analysis … but I wouldn’t be caught dead using all my mental energy to stare at a screen every day lol
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 4 months ago
Not for me, I despise the Big Blue Room.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Why? Honestly, what do you dislike about being outside?
richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 4 months ago
I don’t specially dislike it, but everybody talks about the outdoor like the thing they cannot live without. I… actually thrived during COVID, I wasn’t force to tolerate idiots and I didn’t need to leave my house. I didn’t really feel the need to see the external world.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
That’s not the same thing, I go outdoors constantly and don’t see people. What you have isn’t a dislike of the outdoors, it’s agoraphobia.