Do you like working with your hands?

[IamPixie]

I've always found joy using my hands. I like assembling and installing things. I like to sew, I like to hammer, I like to paint, I even know how to weld.

There's no gratification like having something tangible to show for your hard work.

Do you like working with your hands?

[Tenbatsuzen]

I've always found joy using my hands. I like assembling and installing things. I like to sew, I like to hammer, I like to paint, I even know how to weld.

There's no gratification like having something tangible to show for your hard work.

Do you like working with your hands?

I cleaned up and re-painted a house that someone died in, (and they didn't discover the body for two weeks) and I felt pretty good about it when I was done.

However, my brother just bought a fixer-up from a crazy cat lady, and it reeks of cat. It's disgusting. I can't deal with it. I stepped foot in the house while my brother and father were working on it and it just turned my stomach.

I don't know why. There was a biological deal in there what prevented me from helping.

Maybe I'll prefer to work in there once it's time to prime and paint.

[Tenbatsuzen]

That being said, Pix, you want to come over and help paint in our new place?

[BlackSpider]

I've been a Carpenter for over 20 years.
Was able to draw at a very young age, as well as work in many other Art mediums.
I play Bass (no pick) as well as guitar, keyboards, and other instruments.
If I can picture something in my mind, I can create it with my hands.
I love my hands, and if I didn't have them, I'd rather be dead...



-So, yes...:thumbup:

[RoseBlood]

I like too, yes..

Whether I'm good at it leaves much to be desired:

I kill plants without even trying. I'm not a great cook. I can barely fingerpaint. I've made things out of clay, wood and other fun stuff but they usually wind up rather delapitated.

Sadly, this is probably the best thing I've ever made with my hands: :down:

http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q200/HappenstanceMe/Random/DSCN0070.jpg

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[ChrisTheCop]

I used to draw, and loved it. But havent in awhile.

I like moving into a new place and painting it. Even just one solid color. It's a feeling of accomplishment. I'll be doing that again soon.:wacko:

[RoseBlood]

Oh hey, yeah I use to draw and was kinda good at it but never pursued it.

I guess my one tangible talent is decorating and fashion. I got mad window treatment skillz! :happy:

[Flea_Man]

Depends on the job I think.

I was a waste management artisan and did landscaping for a summer. I loved being outdoors, getting my hands dirty, hands on manual work. While I couldn't do that my whole life, it was a good work out and experience. I also enjoyed doing things like planting and gardening with my dad when I was a kid.

But, seeing as I'm a college student, the only thing I really use my hands for is typing. And after doing mid terms and 15 page final reports, you really don't want to have your hands do anything.

[disneyspy]

im a greenskeeper and the best part of my job(when i feel the most contentment)is gettin to fix a green after some vandals have messed up a green.happens once a year.i always bitch about it,but fixin a green is when im happiest.had some teens tear up a green 3 weeks ago,took 2 1/2 days to fix but it looks good now and i take alot of satisfaction on how it looks now.so ya

[FUNKMAN]

i please myself with my hands often... whether it's stroking the paintrush or swinging the hammer

[DiabloSammich]

Yes I do. It's one of the main reasons I chose my career path. At the end of my day, there is something built, created, installed, that I did, that will be there 5, 10 50 years from now. I'm not just taking information and shuffling it around. Trees that will provide shade for people's grandkids. Stone walls and patios that will last for decades upon decades.

I was a fourth year electrical engineering major when I bailed and started landscaping. And I never looked back.

[JPMNICK]

I love to cook. I also love to put things together. When I moved i spent 4 days painting my apartment.

I do a lot of small projects with robotics, and I am constantly soldering things.

[Fallon]

I work with my hands for a living.

I used to have nice smooth hands, now they're more rough.

[hunnerbun]

I also work with my hands for a living. But aside from that I love gardening and building stuff. So far since we moved into our house I rebuilt the back steps and am halfway thru building a landing and stairs for our dock.
For my birthday a couple of weeks ago I got a new table saw! This winter I will use it to build some shelving units for the basement. It is very satisfying to look at something and know that you made it from scratch.

I also LOVE to cook. Today I made homemade pasta....It was awesome. I love trying new stuff.

[Voreskin]

i love it, and in a few months im getting moved from working outside with my hands all day, to sitting behind a desk taking orders. Its a "promotion" but im not sure im going to be able to stand being inside on the phone all day.

[LaBoob]

Weird... I was just thinking today how much I love working with my hands and how I think I have a special connection with my hands. I've played the piano for years and I type over 90 wpm... when I'm not typing or playing the piano I'm constantly moving my fingers either playing songs, or even typing words or phrases I get stuck in my head.

I agree that house painting is a great and fun way to use your hands and it's really rewarding. I can re-paint my kitchen in 2 hours including clean up because I don't put any tape down and just paint free-hand and nobody would ever know just by looking at it. My house is constantly changing colors!

I want to learn sign language because I think it'd be a good use of my mind-hand connection and my passion for words.

My grandmother has terrible rheumatoid arthritis and her fingers are all bent and she has neuropathy also so her fingers are numb and it breaks my heart and also scares me to death that those things might happen to me someday and I couldn't play the piano anymore or type or text or any of the other things I've been guilty of taking for granted...though I do appreciate it a lot more for that reason.

[Voreskin]

Weird... I was just thinking today how much I love working with my hands and how I think I have a special connection with my hands. I've played the piano for years and I type over 90 wpm... when I'm not typing or playing the piano I'm constantly moving my fingers either playing songs, or even typing words or phrases I get stuck in my head.

I agree that house painting is a great and fun way to use your hands and it's really rewarding. I can re-paint my kitchen in 2 hours including clean up because I don't put any tape down and just paint free-hand and nobody would ever know just by looking at it. My house is constantly changing colors!

I want to learn sign language because I think it'd be a good use of my mind-hand connection and my passion for words.

My grandmother has terrible rheumatoid arthritis and her fingers are all bent and she has neuropathy also so her fingers are numb and it breaks my heart and also scares me to death that those things might happen to me someday and I couldn't play the piano anymore or type or text or any of the other things I've been guilty of taking for granted...though I do appreciate it a lot more for that reason.

WOW that was alot of stuff about your hands. more than i have ever learned about somones hands in my ENTIRE life. YOU LOVE YOUR HANDS!

[Mullenax]

Yes, absolutely, all the time.
I'm an artist who works with paint, power tools, sculpture, drawing, all that stuff. I'm six months out from my masters degree. Last semester I sprained my thumb and it was shockingly depressing. I felt useless.
I like gardening and sewing too. Without my hands, I might be nothing.
Making something real out of an idea is the most satisfying thing I can think of. It's practically magic, considering humans are animals.

[LaBoob]

WOW that was alot of stuff about your hands. more than i have ever learned about someones hands in my ENTIRE life. YOU LOVE YOUR HANDS!

:happy:

I think about it a LOT!

[PapaBear]

I love to work with my hands. I don't do it nearly as much as I should. My father has a wood shop that would put most school wood shops to shame, and I never get around to using it. I also do as much to my car as I can and love to repair stuff around the house.

[cougarjake13]

I've always found joy using my hands. I like assembling and installing things. I like to sew, I like to hammer, I like to paint, I even know how to weld.

There's no gratification like having something tangible to show for your hard work.

Do you like working with your hands?



yes

its why i was a carpenter for many years

[razorboy]

I worked construction when I was in college, and I spend 20-40 hours a week doing flats and shadows for my brother-in-law's animation studio and I have enjoyed both, so I suppose so.

[razorboy]

Stupid double post

[DarkHippie]

I prefer it when someone else's hands are working on me

[JustJon]

I love building and creating things. There's a real sense of accomplishment when you finish creating something.

[Thebazile78]

I love building and creating things. There's a real sense of accomplishment when you finish creating something.

You mean like this:

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[biggestmexi]

<used to cook

[tele7]

A few years ago I was really into building RC airplanes. Open the box to see nothing more than planks of balsa wood and plans. There was something so gratifying about seeing something I built actually fly. It's slowly becoming a lost art, as the pre-fab (ARF) planes are getting better and cheaper. Also, even though it's not work, I don't think I could go a 2 weeks without playing my guitar.

[Phil_Nubbs]

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[LaBoob]

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8130/mostunfortunate501en3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Amazing! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

[ahhdurr]

Amazing! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

x2 - I like that. That's my family portrait - family of origin.

I got out of college with a worthless liberal arts degree and took a building maintenance job that's really paying off now that I own a home. That turned into power plant jobs and I've learned a real lot from some top notch industrial mechanics. I'm always asking my contractor friend for advice on things too.

I've tiled, landscaped, remodeled the entire kitchen, built a deck, run major and minor electric, refinished floors and cabinets, installed water filters and plumbing, painted. Most recently I've installed a dishwasher and I'm in the process of reworking the cabinetry so that my refrigerator can not be in the middle of the kitchen floor anymore. It seems when they measure a dishwasher width - it's actually a little wider - fucking bullshit.

I don't think there's any home project I wouldn't tackle. Besides carpet.

[KingGeno]

I have always worked with my hands. When I was younger, I was always building forts, making devices. I used to totally enjoy building G.I. Joe vehicles, playing with Transformers, etc.

I moved onto opening video game systems and computers few years later, and now I work with classified/sensitive electronic and computer systems for the military.

I can't wait to finally purchase a house, and put work into it.:thumbup:

[Jennitalia]

i love being a massage therapist. i love to be able to make a difference in people's lives, and it's awesome when you have people come into a session either cranky, anxious or in pain, and then leave feeling a million times better. it's cool to be able to connect with people in this line of work. i've been called golden hands (better than golden buns, i guess) and miracle worker, it's kinda funny. it's almost worth now my having hands that are starting to look like thick li'l manhands

[Sue_Bender]

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Nice work, Budday.

[KC2OSO]

...Besides carpet.
'Zackly. Carpet has to be the the most cumbersome job. The Smart Carpet guys were in and out in a day. Done and done.

Some of the (Pat) battle is either having or renting the right tools.

Applying for a permit now to do a sprinkler system in the yard. Both front and back look like a fucking minefield. I think it rained here once back in May.

Seems doable. The Toro site has a DIY section. You send them the dimensions of the beds and yard and they send you back where to lay the pipe and to put the sprinkler heads.

[KatPw]

I love working with my hands. I'm a Hygienist, so I work with my hands for a living. I've done crafts all my life: embroidery, crewel, tapestry needlepoint, machine sewing, knitting. I used to draw a lot, but it is not a talent that I developed to my full potential. I enjoy cooking and baking (particularly bread baking). I also like doing home improvement projects. I know my way around a tool box.
I really want to learn to make pottery, spin and dye yarn, and glass blowing.

[cougarjake13]

does masturbation count ???

[boosterp]

As a scientist when I am off I am always working with my hands. Whether it is maintaining my truck, building something from scratch, working up at my property maintaining the land, or when my ex and I remodled our house I enjoy it.

[Chigworthy]

I just started my new job as an Animal Control Officer. Today, I helped a Vet tech remove a doberman's brain for a rabies test. No saw, just a chisel and scalpel. Interesting. Brain stems smell bad.

[cougarjake13]

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this hurts my brain

[~Katja~]

yes I do... I paint (a lot- every room in my house has a different color) , lay tiles... clean and scrub... assemble furniture and have built a few things... I used to garden a lot but that has taken a back seat... never had a problem getting down and dirty in a real sense... digging trenches, laying plumbing, sanding and re-staining garage doors, fences... all kinds of stuff


in an artistic sense I used to draw...and paint... and always have done a lot of photography which also involves my hands in a way.

[Thebazile78]

I love working with my hands. I'm a Hygienist, so I work with my hands for a living. I've done crafts all my life: embroidery, crewel, tapestry needlepoint, machine sewing, knitting. I used to draw a lot, but it is not a talent that I developed to my full potential. I enjoy cooking and baking (particularly bread baking). I also like doing home improvement projects. I know my way around a tool box.
I really want to learn to make pottery, spin and dye yarn, and glass blowing.

There are usually "adult learning" classes offered either through a town's school board (usually cheap) for stuff like pottery and you might want to check out a "creative anachronism society" for the spinning/dyeing yarn thing, or a cooperative extension office. If your town's school board doesn't offer them, check the local community college. It won't be as cheap, but it should be affordable. (I loved my "clay workshop" class my Senior year of high school ... I made a slip-cast piggy bank as well as a couple of coil pots, a red clay pinch-pot and a couple of boxes. The boxes are long since broken, but I still have my pinch pot and I should have one of the coil pots because I use it as a pencil holder.)

As for glass blowing, I thought that there was a glass blowing studio in Brooklyn or Chelsea that they featured on an episode of Queer Eye ... it shouldn't be hard to find. HOWEVER, I am pretty sure that you can get demos and/or master classes at museums, like the Sandwich Glass Museum in MA or the Corning Glass Works in Corning NY.

[Contra]

I also love using my hands. I cut meat now and I worked in construction for many years. I get a great feeling of accomplishment seeing beautifully cut meat that customers comment on, or seeing roofs or banisters or whole additions I worked on years ago that are still up when I visit back in NJ. Also without my hands I couldn't play my PS3, and that would truly be hell!

[KC2OSO]

this hurts my brain
Yes. Like Igor Stravinsky or Philip Glass would bother my ears and then my hands.

[hedges]

It's what I do to make money, so in that sense I like it. Bartending and catering. It's all with the hands.

[Phil_Nubbs]

this hurts my brain

I'm sorry.

I didn't think it would affect you...


given your "condition". :wink:

[razorboy]

Yes. Like Igor Stravinsky or Philip Glass would bother my ears and then my hands.

How do you feel about Karlheinz Stockhausen?

[KatPw]

There are usually "adult learning" classes offered either through a town's school board (usually cheap) for stuff like pottery and you might want to check out a "creative anachronism society" for the spinning/dyeing yarn thing, or a cooperative extension office. If your town's school board doesn't offer them, check the local community college. It won't be as cheap, but it should be affordable. (I loved my "clay workshop" class my Senior year of high school ... I made a slip-cast piggy bank as well as a couple of coil pots, a red clay pinch-pot and a couple of boxes. The boxes are long since broken, but I still have my pinch pot and I should have one of the coil pots because I use it as a pencil holder.)

As for glass blowing, I thought that there was a glass blowing studio in Brooklyn or Chelsea that they featured on an episode of Queer Eye ... it shouldn't be hard to find. HOWEVER, I am pretty sure that you can get demos and/or master classes at museums, like the Sandwich Glass Museum in MA or the Corning Glass Works in Corning NY.That is awesome that you still have a few pieces that you have made!
Funny you menton Cooperative Extension,I used to be heavily involved with CE (they run 4-H, which I was a part of from 6 years old till about 17). I know my HS has a kiln, I'll have to check when they are running classes. I think the local community college might also. The thing with glass blowing is, it is expensive! There is a place in Nassau county that offers classes, but it is $100 per lesson. I'll do it eventually when our income becomes a bit more "disposable".
I know quite a few people online that spin, so I am gonna start by hand spinning with a drop spindle and go from there. Wheels are pricey, but eventually I will either save up enough for a brand new one, or wait for one to go up on craigslist.
Basically, I want to tackle every craft I can.