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    Most things. People underestimate the labor, time, complexity, obstacles that most jobs involve. We are wildly optimistic.

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    Snowboarding, even without any tricks or anything fancy. Just cruising down the snow is also very difficult.

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      I picked it up very quickly. Swapping edge and linking turns in a few runs and jumping baby kickers and doing small board slides on day 2.

      The only hard part by far is using T-bars. I still fall on them 😞 Even in the kids area lol. And yet I just did a few runs of my first black and only went down on that twice.

      The thing that clicked for me was to look further ahead, keep up pace, and stop thinking. Kind of clicked in minutes after that.

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        Consider this: unlike skiing, you don’t have anything in your hands. You have to completely control the board by your legs.

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        I started skiing when I was very young and I was always bad at it. Never really improved, but golly I was really good at super pie-ing my way down difficult stuff.

        I switched to snowboarding and it just clicked for me. It felt so much better and made way more sense.

        Not to say it’s easy, but give it a try. You might really enjoy yourself.

        On a side note, I’ve since learned that I just suck at motion that has me with my feet facing forward. I can’t roller skate or ice skate to save my life, but long boarding or skate boarding are find. I’m a little shaky on scopters, but it’s not as bad as skates

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          My skiing days are done I think. But ya anything that moves that puts itself betweeny feet and the ground has never worked out well for me. Skating , roller skates, skiing snow and water

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    Playing the harmonica.

    Your mouth cavity forms part of the instrument (like the body of an acoustic guitar) so you need to precisely control your lips, tongue, jaw, etc on top of the usual embouchure skills that you need for a wind instrument, while also being sure to only use the hole/holes you want. You get different notes when you blow and draw (suck), so you must control your breath so the note doesn’t squeak - unless you’re doing that on purpose, which lets you play notes outside the key of that particular harmonica. You also need to balance your in and out breaths so you don’t get too full or empty of air (a few notes have both in and out options to help with this).

    I’m very bad at the harmonica.

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    Digital music production. Making a tune is easy, making it sound good and well balanced is a bitch.

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      I tried making music once for a game jam where we swapped roles with someone

      I’ve learned to never even think about making music in the foreseeable future lol

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          That customer might be over their heads lol

          AI in game development is cringe

          I did game dev for the love of the game, not to spin games up as efficiently as possible.

          There’s a reason why many people hate seeing AI in games. It’s viewed as a passion project for many, and AI kinda tosses that out the window

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        Bitch is used colloquially to signify that something is excessively difficult or unpleasant as well.

        You could also say mixing and mastering are fucking hard. But that would not be to say they are engaged in passionate intercourse; rather, fucking, in this context, simply emphasizes the difficulty of the task.

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        I’d recommend downloading FL studio’s trial version and experimenting by making a simple trap beat. The only cost is your time!

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    most things. swimming, jogging, balance, juggling, knitting, whittling, lathing, bathing, dogs, pogs, poker, snooker, cooking, docking, greeting, seating, studying, cuddling, fishing, threshing…

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    It varies from person to person.

    I can build a house from start to finish and figure it all out easily. I can rebuild a car pretty easy too. Computer hardware and networking stuff is no problem. I started navigating the us with nothing but maps (pre internet access availability for me) at 16 and have driven all over since. I excel in spatial relations from what I’m told.

    I don’t understand nouns, verbs, adverbs, or anything that goes along with it but can speak and write clearly. Learning languages is a pita. Same goes for programming. Interacting with people outside of certain things in person makes me cringe. Interacting on the phone is worse unless I know someone, I’m currently still using my wife’s debit card to access my bank account 7 years after she passed because I have to call the bank to fix mine and I can’t stand the thought.

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      If you don’t think mudding and taping drywall is more difficult than it seems, I’m impressed (and a little disbelieving).

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      Warm white lightbulbs, anti blue coatings on glasses and settings in every device, and occasionally remembering to not drink caffeine past 4pm (even if you’re a ‘caffeine makes me tired’ person it still keeps your brain kicking and out of rem sleep) were the kickers that got me into a good sleep schedule

      The second I had a pair of glasses with those night driving amber lenses I genuinely noticed my sleep being better, felt myself actually getting tired and would actually go to bed early.

      The doomscrolling in bed didn’t help either

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    Teaching (elementary school). It’s my third career and definitely the hardest of the three.

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        Just getting the kids’ attention is half the battle, and in a crowded classroom that battle’s already lost.

        Then add in modern parents that think their disruptive kid can do no wrong…

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    Apparently, applying window tint is more difficult than it seems.

    I regularly see cars with large bubbles between the tint and the glass. I decided years ago that if I want window tint but can’t afford to have it professionally applied, then I can’t afford tint. Having no tint at all is better than living with poorly applied tint.