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Originally Posted by Professor S
It may make sense for you to spend hours fussing with building a computer. I have a 1 year old, a wife, a full time job, a house to care for, etc. It makes no sense for me to waste a day building a PC when it costs me $100 extra for a professional to do it right and ship it to me for free. Building a PC is simply not high on my list of priorities.
Don't confuse lazy with smart. Stupid people work hard for no reason, and at the expense of things they care about.
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If it's not laziness then it's a lack of understanding of how building your own computer gives you a leg up versus everyone else in the market doing your same job (assuming it involves computers in any way). While someone else would be stuck waiting for someone to fix their computer or, worse, spending money to have someone fix it (and it's almost always something exceedingly simple to fix), you would be saving time (which as you said is money) and actual cash by fixing it yourself right away. And you would get more work done.
I also think everyone should learn basic programming skills, because it will make you vastly more efficient over others in whatever job you're in when you realize you can have a computer do most of your computer work more efficiently and with far fewer errors.
That is, unless you're the CEO and your time really is worth $500/hr+... then in that case it really is a waste to learn. Just pay others to do everything for you.
By the way, I'm not trying to be a dick here. I honestly believe this stuff, and especially for someone that I respect like you (or anyone else on these forums). Computers rule the work world. You're better off knowing as much as you can about them, and the BEST way to learn is to build your own.