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RoverTheMonster t1_j606z5i wrote

If this is not already a thing, what a great idea for a business

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fish_spoon t1_j60ttxo wrote

I loathe training people. The expectation is usually that they don't want to have to pay for my services, so they expect that me "training them" (a skill I don't even claim to possess) will allow them to save money because they can do it themselves.

But I'm not going to train someone for a discount. Say I can do a job in 1hr and charge $100. To train someone else to do that job will take 2hrs, so I'm charging $200. And I'm not a trained tutor (if I was I'd charge more), so you'e only getting "elementary school substitute teacher" level instruction. After all that, you still have to do the job yourself, and a 20min task for someone with 20yrs experience could easily be a 2hr+ task for someone without experience. Plus added costs of any tools/supplies needed...

My opinion is that if you don't feel comfortable attempting something after watching a YouTube video or two, just call a professional.

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Vexithan t1_j61jbj6 wrote

People tend to forget that just because you can do something it doesn’t mean you can teach the thing.

My stepdad is a master carpenter and can fix literally anything he looks at no matter what it is. But watching him try to teach someone is the most painful thing in the world.

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Little_Noodles t1_j61v93o wrote

I’m medium-handy, medium/high-crafty, and have worked at the professional level as an instructor in a few fields, so I’ve been roped into doing low-level things like this for friends.

I’d never do it for a stranger, and will now only do it for friends if the task is extremely basic. I think the last thing I did was teach someone how to use a mitre saw and then let them watch, fetch stuff, and hold shit in place while I finished a project, and then did it again on a smaller scale so she could do a little more the second time and she’d have something to take home.

So, quite literally twice the work, each time taking longer than it would if done solo.

My high-crafty and high-handy friends feel almost the same way about teaching me stuff, I’m sure, though they’re happy to team up on shit that’s within my limits and show me how to elevate it just a touch.

A one-on-one situation would be very expensive, and rightfully so. You’d be paying that person’s base hourly rate, plus the fee for doing something frustrating.

But group classes at somewhere like the West Philly Tool Library that you can supplement with online tutorials once you get the basics down seems within reach.

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BloodPrayer t1_j65jc5r wrote

Just such an odd question IMO, I don’t want to pay someone who does it professionally but I want someone who knows how to do it to show me how. Apply that to other professions and see how strange it sounds.

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dearjuliette OP t1_j609jlc wrote

Right?! I did some googling and didn’t find that much and was curious if someone here knew someone who did this while not completely advertising it.

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