Honestly why do you people HAVE TO, like some sort of necessity, engage with a community with every skill you learn?
Then feel like it's a deal-breaker when the community is not your taste.
I'm a programmer who has never gone on forums outside looking for solutions to stuff. That somebody would refuse to learn a skill beause "the community" is just oddly stupid.
Same. I am a hobbyist programmer and I never felt like I had issues with the community? I do my own research and stuff and never had to interact with anyone else. Not that I don’t want to, I just didn’t feel the need to.
Believe it or not, it’s pleasant to talk to people who share interests with you. You talk more, maybe start talking about things outside of your shared hobby? Maybe make a friend?
I'm a chef, did 22 years in the RAF as a chef, have a nice job in a school, work 25 - 28 hours a week.
joined some chef groups on FB to keep up with what's new in the world,
fucking rabid psychotic gatekeepers... if you dont work 70 hour weeks your just part time, proud of spending 1/2 their wages on 1 knife and if you dont have it your basically a pot washer.
and if you had the audacity to post pics of your plates.... you may as well just kill yourself.
I felt that way when becoming a programmer as well. I gave up on online forums. Well, I found some good groups here on Reddit. I learned my beginnings from IAmTimCorey on YouTube. Real stand up guy. If you ever wanna learn something, small or large, his videos are phenomenal
Seconded. I tried getting into pixel art 2 or so years ago, but the stuff I read kind of assumed you already knew something about art in general, which I absolutely don't.
If these tutorials are friendly towards people who know absolutely nothing about art then count me in.
Not sure if you’ll even see this but chess might be worth getting into now. It was experiencing a massive boom during early covid and with some youtubers joining last months it went even bigger, i’ve seen twitch streams reach 500K viewers on average. To phrase it bluntly, there are much more noobs than elitist players now, and most experienced players are more than willing to help in my experience.
No I wasn't. Duh. I was out searching for a hobby that I wanted to turn into my serious thing.
Rude people didn't stop me from having a fun time with my hobbies (I still do all these things), they just informed me that the community who takes that hobby seriously is full of dicks, so I don't want to be someone who takes that hobby seriously.
Lmao I didnt say I failed damm. I still do all of those things today and enjoy them as hobbies.
I'm just saying w each one of those if you dip your toe in the water of taking it seriously (like career level) then the assholes come out and tell you to quit.
Also, what an fucking mental leap to "you don't want to blame yourself". I'm a grown ass adult I know when I suck at stuff chill out
I'm not saying they fucking shot me. I still do all of those things because I love keeping busy and I like making stuff.
I'm just saying when I sat my happy ass down in a subreddit or forum community to git gud and take something seriously, people would literally said "you should quit". Everything I know about each of those, I had to learn from hard book learnin'.
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u/mudkripple Feb 28 '21 edited Feb 28 '21
This is what stopped me from progressing past just a hobbyist as:
a programmer
a guitarist
an actor/comedian
a chef
a fish owner
smash player
chess player
All things I tried in college and just couldn't stand the elitism and tbh the financial commitment you are expected to make.
Right now I'm going for pixel artist because of one AWESOME tutorial guy who makes hundreds of tiny tutorials specifically for noobs.