/diy/ ambitions

[Anonymous No.516552]

ITT: A friendly thread about what we want to be.

I want to know what are the ambitions that drive you to create, and maybe we can even pass on advice for those already in the trade.

What do you guys aspire for? Or maybe you already have a job in doing what you love?
Where do you want to be in your future?
Blacksmith?
Salesman?
Repairman?
Engineer?
Are you working on anything currently?
Spill your guts and your wisdom into this thread and lets just share a thought or two.

[Anonymous No.516553]

I love model and full-scale aviation. I'm (at last) crafting some really nice, clean scratchbuilt airplanes, but what I really aspire to is full-scale private flying. My perfect career is as a charter pilot, but we'll see how that comes about.

As a /diy/er in many ways, my holy of holys in terms of projects is a nice, trim little homebuilt airplane. To soar thousands of feet above the land in a steel or plywood frame you built yourself for under $10,000 is fucking brilliant.

[Anonymous No.516555]

To get the ball rolling I guess, I'll share mine.

I've always wanted to be the guy thats known for his effective use of his hands.
I enjoyed making stone sculptures in highschool, but I didn't want to be an artist as such.
I started making chainmail when /diy/ was born and I found my new creative outlet and have since been buying better tools and materials, yet still consider myself a rookie.

I've even sold several pieces through a friends store, and made an extra bit of pocket money. I always get asked if I can make guitar straps, but I'd need some leather work in order to to that.

One day, I just wanna have a house in the hills, far from any neighbors where I can have as big a work station as I'd like where I can work on Leather, maybe some black smithing, lampworking, and maybe even go back to carving stone to make my own garden sculptures one day. Jewelry from chainmail is so far what I'm having the most fun with.

My only problem is I'm too excited about this stuff. And I don't know where to really begin. I don't know what tafe/uni courses I should take to further expand on these.

How should I proceed?

[Anonymous No.516558]

Gunsmith, I have so many things to make.
roboticist, I really want to make an Android shell for the hell of it.
aeronautical engineer x I want to make an air sail ship with enough lift to carry a shipping container.

[Anonymous No.516559]

>>516555
bare Ing the end of the world or of your job title, or bad investments, the nice house and workshop will pretty much come to you in your 30s or 40s as long as its a priority.

make a guitar strap! Get some leather and do it. Can't see it taking a ton more tools than you have

[Anonymous No.516560]

>>516555
here's a couple of starting pieces I pitched for my friends store to see how well they get received.

Not exactly original, but I made some tweeks based on some suggestions and what limiting factors I came across from the materials I had.
Sucks I have to buy wire from TheRingLord, because shipping is hella fucking expensive.

[Anonymous No.516563]

>>516555

All I really can suggest is practice. That didn't really need to be said, but this post is also to point out those nice gets.

Btw, Nice get.

[Anonymous No.516561]

I want to get to the top of my job ladder. I want to be an old engineer, who really knows his shit. The guy people say "go ask this guy, he can do it" about. The guy who would produce even if he was just sitting around because everyone would be asking him for advice. The guy who knows a little bit about everything.

I work with a few people like this, and ten years from now I'm going to be one. I have a long way to go, but it's going to happen and I'm on the right track.

[Anonymous No.516562]

>>516559
When it comes to new mediums, leather in this case, I just have no idea where to begin.
Or where to find materials that suit my locations (Ausfagian).

I know the hole punch, mallet, twine and leather, but I have no idea how to get the ball rolling.

[Anonymous No.516564]

>>516560
>>516561
>>516562
>>516563

0123 get

[Anonymous No.516566]

6 get!

[Anonymous No.516565]

[Anonymous No.516567]

>>516566

Dubs, also 7 get!

[Anonymous No.516568]

>>516564
>yfw theres only 3 people on /diy/ at any given time
>You, OP, and the other guy
M8, this thread and about gets, you hear?

[Anonymous No.516569]

>>516568

[Anonymous No.516570]

WE WON THE GAME

[Anonymous No.516644]

Great thread, guys...

Well I want to be an electrician.
I just want to know everything electronics. Repair RC cars, TV's, code some websites for people.
That kind of stuff.
I'm even trying to make my own radio from scratch.

[Anonymous No.516650]

I don't have any professional /diy/ amibitions. I just want to know how to make and work on the shit I need. The closest I have to a professional /diy/ ambition would be making some spare scratch doing guitar modifications.

[Anonymous No.516680]

>>516644
Electrician here. Usually if something like what you described doesn't work we just replace the whole device.

Sounds like you'd like to be an electronics technologist or EE. Electricians usually deal with wires, breakers, relays, motors, speed drives, plc's, etc.

[Anonymous No.516682]

I'd like to become a jeweler. Slowly working towards it.

[Anonymous No.516700]

I am currently a Sous Chef with dreams of owning my own business. I have been in Kitchens almost exclusively since my first job and I just have a passion for artistic unorthodox menus. My place will feature things like Omelette Souffle Tomato Soup. I am currently working at the most prestigious Asian reastarant in a college town of around 40,000 people.

Currently I am fixing up a couple of 18 speeds for a co-worker. He's a legal Mexican American that speaks Spanish English and some Mandarin. If he is still around when my place gets going, then he will be my head host and part time floor manager. I am going to call my place "...Grieves" and it will be gothic/dungeon-like in decor.

also cocks

[Anonymous No.516715]

My grandpa used to repair model trains a long time ago, and now that he's retired and bored out of his gourd we've decided to open up a train shop.
We're going to get all the certifications and I'm going to go training so I can repair the new stuff so that we can sell, and fix, anything.

[Anonymous No.516723]

>tfw too many interests and ambitions, too little time to pursue them all
>you will never be a master in all of them

Someone else must know this feel.

[Anonymous No.516724]

I want to be a farmer.
Get like 80 acres. Nice.
Unfortunately I don't think I'd make enough money to pay off the loan to buy the land, or even rent land. So until then I'll have to save up money from my 11.50 an hour job.

[Anonymous No.516744]

>>516723
>TFW masterrace

[Anonymous No.516757]

>>516723
I do.
>tfw also working over 30 hours a week and slowly becoming worse in interests you were planning on going to school for because you can't find time to practice them

W-well it's not like my parents wanted to pay for me to go to school to have an art related job or become a musician anyway

[Anonymous No.516761]

>>516723
I know this feel. I still manage to get a lot done though.

[Anonymous No.516764]

>>516757
if it makes you feel any better, anon, I got a degree in art and make no use of it because I also want a comfortable family life instead of eating out of dumpsters and shitting in a bucket at my studio that I can't afford. My buddy got a music degree and now rebuilds diesel engines.
That probably doesn't make you feel happy at all. Oh well.
If you're like I am/was, you should get into an artisan trade like baking, decorative blacksmithing and metalworking, or automotive/motorcycle repair and painting. A craft people want to buy, not a painting or drawing.
As it stands, I'm middle-aged and useless except for making kids with my bitch wife.

[Anonymous No.516771]

>>516764
It never ceases to amaze me how many older folks browse 4chan.

[Anonymous No.516780]

>>516764
I've been working around not being able to go to school for them by playing in public concert bands and drawing on my own, but it just makes me feel bad because I have almost no skills or interests in anything besides the two.

Since high school ended I haven't been able to get a real footing in what I want to do as a career or school choice, I just feel like I'm lost and wasting my youth in retail.

[Anonymous No.516807]

I'm studying to be a computer engineer.

My interests are related to music and electronics. I make my own stompboxes and some electronic circuits. Anyway, I consideer electronics as a hobby, not as something I wanna be.

[Anonymous No.516826]

I'm working my way towards becoming an architect. Although the profession itself interests me, i want to one day fulfill the original meaning of the word, which is master builder. I'd like to spend my days designing buildings and making things. I also want to design and build my own house at some point.
I

[Anonymous No.516833]

>>516780
For music, unless you're interested in mixing and sound engineering, don't bother. Period. Go get gigs, play gigs, and repeat. Just stop fucking around with tone experimentation. Find a sound and explore it's depth until you hop genres.
For art, there's a lot to learn, but it's you're attitude and work ethic in the field that gets you noticed. Education for art is only useful to become an art educator; it's a field that praises rebellion and savantism, not process and ability...unless you're in printmaking, then it's great.

>>516771
You have to remember, it's my generation was the golden age of arcades, the explosion of consoles, and to a certain extent the advent and popularity of p2p filesharing. We built this city, so to speak. I think all of those electronic lifestyle devices also made us some of the first folks who gave ourselves major societal disorders with them. Like me!

[Anonymous No.516916]

>>516723
>make money
>acquire time
>become a master of many

[Anonymous No.516931]

I would like to work in the scientific field. I'm very interested in the natural world and the processes within it. The idea of life almost magically sparking consciousness and evolving fascinating and curious. I find it interesting that each organism has a history and culture to it in which it reacts differently to situations. I also like the processes earth undergoes such as weather, volcanic activity, magnetic forces, etc. My real question is what are the fields that fall into these categories? And since that list may extend awhile, name the first few that come to mind.

[Anonymous No.516936]

>>516552
i want to create a bunch of inventions and do all the work myself so i will be the boss and not make 50 dollars while the guy i asked for help makes 80,000k on it and then i want to build up until i can mass produce everything and stick it up the anus of the people against me

[Anonymous No.516991]

>>516715

Trains are cool as hell. Lots of gears and minute detailing.

[Anonymous No.516998]

>>516931

>tfw love science since childhood
>tfw dedicate life to science when 15 years old
>tfw first day of physics class at university
...4 years later...
>tfw there is no mystery to life anymore
>tfw all magic is lost
>tfw everything is well understood and boring
>tfw contemplating suicide

Should have tried less and got a business degree.

[Anonymous No.517062]

>>516998

Well that wasn't exactly motivating! xD But in contest life still is full of mystery and no true answer is yet found. There are merely theories which we can create and try to further prove and disprove. I believe life will always be a mystery but we can never know this for sure until we search for that answer. And it's also kind of ignorant to think you there is nothing left to learn after 4 years of study... sorry bud but you didn't name different fields my interests would fall into.

[Anonymous No.517092]

>>516552
I'm hoping to become a network engineer. For some reason, I love everything about physically routing things. It's something about the abundance of cables, and ports to fill that makes me estatic.

Either that or an audio engineer, which I would feel more comfortable in.

[Anonymous No.517145]

>>517092
I would fire everyone responsible for what I see in that photo

[Anonymous No.517146]

>>516771
>It never ceases to amaze me how many older folks browse 4chan.
we've been here since it began. Most people who were here in 2003 were in their 20s and are now well into their mid or late 30s

[Anonymous No.517200]

>>517092
Network Engineers very rarely actually do the physical cabling. That's the job of the cable contractor or DC monkey.

[Anonymous No.517213]

>>517092
>abundance of cables, and ports to fill
sounds like cock obsession.
someone had to say it.

[Anonymous No.517233]

Being an architect would be sweet, like John Lautner or Frank Lloyd Wright. I used to spend countless hours making fantastic things out of Legos as a kid.

Currently I'm taking homes from old plan books and building them in Chief Architect. It helps hone my sense of which designs work and which ones don't. The ideas on traffic flow, storage space and room arrangement in these things are fascinating. Brilliant, at times.

Shame current homeowners don't give a shit about these things. It's all "hurr that's dated" and "muh granite countertops" now.

[Anonymous No.517235]

>>516833
>We built this city
ON ROCK AND ROOOLL

[Anonymous No.517355]

>>517233

That said, they sure had some weird ideas about stuff back in the day. If you're gonna go though the trouble of roofing the parking area as an extension of the main building's roof, why not just make it a garage? Its a huge jump in usability for a minor jump in price. The washer/drying right next to the family room with no wall between? Yeah, that will be great when you're trying to watch TV. Maybe if there was a garage to put them in... Skylights in the roof just for some plants? You really want to add another avenue of potential roof failure just for some landscaping? And about that roof pitch... Also, funny shaped windows are a PITA to get sourced. Its marginally okay if your building a tract housing development but replacements will cost a lot more than a normal window. Next, there is a reason why no one does vertical siding on exterior walls, but I'm sure the owners found out why after a few years. The kitchen is too small but that was made back when only women were supposed to be in there anyway so I guess its okay. AC right next to the bedrooms, what is with these guys and putting loud shit right next to the living spaces?

No heater (AC not HVAC), high windows, shallow roof pitch, skylights just cause, no mud room or anything like it. Yeah this house will to swell anywhere outside of Arizona! As long as it doesn't rain you should be fine.

Also, I've lived in a house that had the living areas broken up by a kitchen. It wasn't that floor plan (no dining room) but it had the kitchen between the den and the living room. It sucks. Either put up some doors so you can have some sound proofing or cram it all toegther so you can have a large, usable space if need be. While there is a lot I hate about "modern" housing design the whole "open concept" bit is better than the stupid shit they did back in the 60s and 70s. Well, at least that thing doesn't have a sunken living room.

[Anonymous No.517370]

I hail from /b/ but decided I will spend more time on /diy/ as I want to be an Engineer. Mechanical/aerospace engineer precisely. I am completely new to engineering though so could anyone give me tips or tell me where to find a good guide for a beginner to engineering? Laugh all you would like but my biggest hero in life is Tony Stark. He is what drives me to want to be an engineer.

[Mule No.517397]

>>516723
fucking THIS.

Electrical Engineer. ("Test Engineer" on my business cards, I build ATE.)

Want to redesign the light controller on my motorcycle, fix a few things on that.
Want to hack my snowmobile's ECU.

Time to do that? nooooooooooope.gif

[Anonymous No.517435]

>>517233
These are all great but there is more to a house than a functional floorplan. Design in section and 3d as well. The best way to figure out what works well and doesn't is to visit buildings and experiences them for yourself. The feeling inside a house is just as important as it efficiently using space.

[Anonymous No.517442]

In an aviation maintenance technician class right now. Not entirely sure if this is what I want to do as a career because I don't really feel like I'm learning anything. It seems like all I do is fuck up, too.

[jackofalltrades !!mKjMdE9E/sO No.517443]

I am currently trying to get in law enforcement, but might be wait listed due to background issues.

Seriously thinking of doing locksmith/personal security type stuff.

[Anonymous No.517529]

>>516723
Can't even find the time to read all the fuckin books I find important enough to read (and I read practically no fiction)
>>516998
There's still plenty of shit for us to figure out. Esp. physics. Dark matter/energy. Or my personal favorite. hydrgen fusion NIGGA. I get rage face when hippies cry about nuclear energy. The sun makes it's energy through fusion. You hippies think you're smarter than the sun?

[Anonymous No.517534]

>>517529
see, that pisses me off. Nuclear power is the power of the future fo fucking sho. The problem is the disposal of the spent rods, and the ban on nukes is like 30 years old now. technology moves forward, and the injunction has strangled development of proper disposal techniques as well as implementation of it. Shit man, there were nuke powered car designs in the 60s.

FOR FUCKS SAKE LOAD THAT SHIT ONTO A ROCKET AND AIM AT THE SUN. Or the moon, we're not using that for shit.

Ridiculous. hippies want to stop global warming and kneecap the power technology that would solve all problems.

[Anonymous No.517542]

Trim carpenter/ jack of all trades master of none here. I'd like to be a printmaker as my full blown career. I make prints(mostly woodcuts and etchings) in my spare time.
had several pieces in galleries that sold. Good feeling knowing that people value your creations higher you do. But the fact that I have to suck peoples dick to break into the art world is disheartening. Shitty that skill is less relevant than the connections and people you know. But honestly I do it for my own personal gratification that I can create images carved out of wood and metal. Definitely a dying profession. Tom Huck has been a large influence on my "hobby

[Anonymous No.517560]

I wish to learn everything, anything that can be learned, must be tried.

[Anonymous No.517566]

>>517529
You don't want hydrogen fusion. The average time for H H fusion is something like billions of years. It only works in the sun because the sun's so fricking huge that it doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.517591]

I aim to make digital devices , if I can get a gadget I've made in the popsci gadget porn section I can feel good about myself. I say aim as I started wanting to be a particle physics guy, but then realized the electrical stuff was way better. I'm currently working in my last 2 years on a double major of CS and CE. Otherwise I'd teach how to play guitar and bass, which is just plain fun. I wouldn't pass sex up for the chance to play music, but that feeling you get when you just got that printed circuit out of the chemical bath, and the smell of hot solder, paired with staring at my lava lamp in between debugging c toolchains, mmmm, id skip sex for that. But yknow its quite funny, all of my skills I would consider "relevant" to my field of interest, I haven't really learned a whole lot of that in class, I'd say the internet and maker forum's is far more helpful in terms of technical skills than a college degree.

[Anonymous No.517592]

>>517534
actually theres work on throium reactors right now that can use those spent rods for fuel, granted our nuclear power is inefficient as fuck, but its still nice to reuse materials

[Anonymous No.517763]

I want to be Iron Man, but I've never done anything towards that goal.

[Anonymous No.518961]

I want a little commune somewhere secluded that is self-sufficient or as close to it as possible.
Attached to that commune, I want a modest fabrication laboratory / workshop / garage.

I want to be the jack of all trades, but master of none. I want to be the guy who can make almost anything out of almost nothing.

More than anything, I just want to feel like I've accomplished something meaningful, and to have done so by my abilities alone.

Instead I'm wasting my time, money and effort at Uni pursuing a worthless degree and accomplishing nothing in the process.

[Anonymous No.518978]

I got my electronics engineering degree four years ago. I jumped around between different jobs until I finally found one with a four day work week and lots of hands on work. I have plenty of time and money for my /diy/ hobbies. It's fulfilling work designing factory automation equipment, and the people really respect me for my abilities. It's a good life, I have no regrets.

[Anonymous No.518982]

I want to build custom cars utilizing traditional body working techniques. (leading, frenching, etc.) My auto body course is nice but we're not learning anything about customs just basic repair techniques. Looks like I have to teach myself.

[Anonymous No.518984]

>>516552
I am trying to be more self sufficient as I will be alone far from everyone I know soon. This stuff won't help me at all besides personal life then again its also fun I enjoy thinking about how things work

[Anonymous No.518989]

Even though I'm going to school for electrical engineering in a few weeks, I'd like to be a guitar luthier one day, I enjoy playing and working on guitars and my own projects.

Maybe start my own small business making my own instruments in the future.

[Anonymous No.519013]

I always wanted to be that guy that was the inventor of the worlds first fully functional robot, or the guy that was the first to truly bring technology straight out of a sci-fi film into real life.

Shit like holograms, robots, flying cars, biotech implants and prosthetics (robotic arms, eyes, etc. etc.) create an entire industry

I wanted to be Sarif Industries, U.S robots, and all those corps seen in sci-fi films in one.

but i'm a dumb lazy fuck

[Anonymous No.519026]

I guess really I've just found that making things is what I'm passionate about in life. Currently studying computer engineering. Worked in construction for the last decade or so. Both have been kind of a means to the same end, in a way.
As for the future, not entirely sure yet. I really, really would like to have my own company. So while I'm analyzing/learning things, I try to come up with business ideas as well. Love the programming side of things, currently trying to learn OpenGL/3D graphical concepts. Circuit design and digital logic are also pretty damn fun though too. Still have some time. Focused on learning right now.
I guess for the "share my wisdom" part.... I'm 29 now. The one thing I wish someone would have really hammered into me when I was younger is just to try new things. As much as you can stand. You won't know what you really want to do if you don't know what's out there... and experience it first-hand, that's the important bit.

[Anonymous No.519028]

>>517092
this is network technician job.

I'm planning studies to be net/sys admin
after trainership no more wires in your hands

[Anonymous No.519030]

What I want to be but doesn't make me happy -> Network Administrator or Database Administrator. What I am and is making me happy -> Welder/Fabricator/Ductwork Installer. Also handyman around the home.

26 years old now. A little late to be back tracking into the It field. Would like an IT related hobby to do that doesn't involve programming. Have some exp with xhtml, css, php, and sql. Dunno what to do with those skills really.

[Anonymous No.519031]

Currently in my last year of engineering. But as I look into the future I see myself doing e-eng until I buy a house then semi-retire and become more of an arty diy type making cool shit in my epic shed. .