Is this how most people feel about woodworking or writing or cooking or music? Maybe they’d enjoy decorating or furniture building more if they knew how to do it properly, but they don’t really care to learn.
Maybe that’s how most people feel about anything they don’t know how to do. Clearly somewhere along the line they’ve decided that greater agency with and control over a process isn’t worth the time it would take to get there.
When are those decisions made?
Surely the temptation to decide that a vocation isn’t for you haunts the process of learning the ones that are for you? I’ve certainly had moments with furniture making and writing that made me think they weren’t for me, but I’ve got spaces in my house dedicated to both of those practices now. They’ve annexed little bits of my life.
I don’t think I want web design to do that.
Logging in each night and spilling my brains across a page that requires minimal animal husbandry of a digital sort is about as much as I can take. It’s the words I’m here for. The main reason I want to switch is that Cargo Collective’s image library is difficult to use to the point of non-functionality, and I don’t believe I could ever expand this into a shop with any real scale or ease.
Squarespace has its own issues. Neither are pleasurable, neither make me totally happy and I’ve got to spend a fair bit more time with each of these platforms than I’d like to, which is essentially none.
Computers are evil and none of us should use them.
Agriculture is evil and none of us should be doing it.
We should have remained hunter gatherers. I could just spend all day wandering around eating shellfish and picking berries with Roby on my shoulders and instead I have to do literally anything other than that.
We’ve got horribly wrong.