I learned a lot about home maintenance and handiwork from my dad, but then I started looking stuff up and realized he's been stubbornly doing a lot of projects the wrong way.
My dad failed his 11+ so was sent to a technical school so he actually learnt how to lay a row of bricks or how to beat out lead flashing. He did end up doing a PhD in Physics but I suspect his early school years explain why he's always been much more practical than me. My wife was a stage tech during uni so I'll happily defer to her for joinery. I can just about solder a copper pipe or big pads on a PCB.
Buying a reasonably priced home is easy, it's just not going to be where you want it to be
Know the monetary value of approximately anything at a glance.
For example, when shopping my dad always knew if a sale was real or if they raised the price first.
Unfortunately he never managed to translate that skill into making money even when he owned a small comic store.
My dad can keep a job better than me. Heβs had like five jobs, each one for over ten years.
Iβve had like 30 jobs, and the longest for maybe 1.5 years. Iβve been fired a handful of times.
Somehow my father can just find a groove and stick with it. In me a dissatisfaction grows really fast and I waver on things.
same here and i think my parents got good at sticking with a groove because they had a family of 7 to feed, cloth, and house; meanwhile i have only had pets that don't grow up to be shitty self entitled tweens.
Going to college, getting a good job after acquiring a degree, holding that job for decades, retiring, being able to afford a middle-class lifestyle.
My father worked as a builder and a mechanic, so there wasn't much he couldn't fix if he put his mind to it.
They are both intellectually superior to me and my brother, their only children. I'm pretty sure he and I are a bit of a disappointment to both of them, but they would never admit that.