YouTube Channels where you can actually learn real-world skills

[Metis]

YouTube has become a cornucopia of excellent knowledge for the craftsman. Here are some of the channels I watch:

Keith Fenner (machining):

https://www.youtube.com/user/KEF791

Mathias Wandell (woodworking):

https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel

Eeplacementparts (general repair):

https://www.youtube.com/user/eReplacementParts

South Main auto repair (general automotive)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtAGzm ... ko1PBhzTHA

ChuckE2009 (welding):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJAFY2 ... 79yld7T3hA

Onelonelyfarmer (tractor repair):

https://www.youtube.com/user/onelonleyfarmer

Here is my shop, which I'm going out to right now to give a good cleaning:

http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/ ... ost4162776

[pecelot]

Thanks, but they won't be useful for a citizen like me. :(

[Gendarme]

Primitive Technology (building tools in the woods/survival):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JX ... lZyD3nQdBA

[Metis]

Primitive Technology (building tools in the woods/survival):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JX ... lZyD3nQdBA

I've actually watched all of his videos. This is survival skill at its finest. Real survival skill is about knowledge and the wisdom to apply it and the skills you have to the task at hand.

[Mimsy for President]

TVFilthyFrank (sociology, metaphysics and so on)

[Gendarme]

TVFilthyFrank (sociology, metaphysics and so on)

I thought it was about pizza and hamburgers. I was wrong, I suppose.

[iNcog]

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[Metis]

I've always liked this quite by Heinlein about what a competent person should be able to do.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert Heinlein

Some of the things I've done:

Worked as a janitor
Farmed
Served in the military
Worked as a paramedic
Curated a research museum
Programmed database applications
Directed a company
Flew a plane
Parachuted
Scuba dived
Managed apartments
Welded
Worked as an electrician
Built a few houses
Built cabinets
Rebuilt an engine
Worked as a field biologist
Worked in a fish hatchery
Toured the country on a motorcycle
Killed and butchered my own meat
Sailed a sailboat
Taught at a college

You people are young, you should be able to do as much or more in your lives.

[pecelot]

I dont necessarily like doing something just for the sake of it when it will be never useful for me.

[iNcog]

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[_venox_]

I've always liked this quite by Heinlein about what a competent person should be able to do.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert Heinlein

Some of the things I've done:

Worked as a janitor
Farmed
Served in the military
Worked as a paramedic
Curated a research museum
Programmed database applications
Directed a company
Flew a plane
Parachuted
Scuba dived
Managed apartments
Welded
Worked as an electrician
Built a few houses
Built cabinets
Rebuilt an engine
Worked as a field biologist
Worked in a fish hatchery
Toured the country on a motorcycle
Killed and butchered my own meat
Sailed a sailboat
Taught at a college

You people are young, you should be able to do as much or more in your lives.

Does doing these things in games count? c:

[Mimsy for President]

Some of the things I've done:

[Laurence Drake]

I'd do all those things if I had the money.

[Metis]

You people are young, you should be able to do as much or more in your lives.

Does doing these things in games count? c:[/quote]

You can learn quite a bit from a well-made video game. For example, there are farming simulators that come fairly close to what it's like running a real farm. I played a silly cooking game once and actually learned some new recipes that I still use. While you don't develop the all-important "muscle memory" from playing them, some military simulators can at least run you through the tactics you will use in a real military situation. Some games come very close to the aircraft and tank simulations that the actual military uses to train troops. Flight Sim can be teach some of what you need to know about actually flying a plane, especially if you have computer pedals and yoke set up.

[Metis]

I'd do all those things if I had the money.

Actually, I've never had much money. In fact, if you were to see my tax returns you would be amazed at how little money I've made in my life. You don't need that much money to do interesting things, you just need to be interested in something and grab the opportunity to do it when that opportunity comes around.

For instance, I took a ground school in the Army for nearly free through the Army's continuing education program. I could never afford flying lessons, however. Fortunately, when I was in paramedic school, one of my roommates was a pilot and he would rent a plane every weekend and let me fly it as much as I wanted. I've enough "bootleg" training and enough take-offs and landings to be fairly competent at flying, should I ever need to fly a plane in an emergency.

[pecelot]

then why play age of empires

I'm gonna become a pro gamer one day you know

[noissance]

I've always liked this quite by Heinlein about what a competent person should be able to do.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert Heinlein

Some of the things I've done:

Worked as a janitor
Farmed
Served in the military
Worked as a paramedic
Curated a research museum
Programmed database applications
Directed a company
Flew a plane
Parachuted
Scuba dived
Managed apartments
Welded
Worked as an electrician
Built a few houses
Built cabinets
Rebuilt an engine
Worked as a field biologist
Worked in a fish hatchery
Toured the country on a motorcycle
Killed and butchered my own meat
Sailed a sailboat
Taught at a college

You people are young, you should be able to do as much or more in your lives.

You should be the guy on the Dos Equis comercials.. The most interesting man in the world!

[momuuu]

things I have done

- human interaction
- sports
- games

I am content.

[Metis]

You should be the guy on the Dos Equis commercials. The most interesting man in the world!

In my opinion, you should always strive to be the most interesting person you know. Be like the river that Heraclitus spoke of, not some stagnant puddle. Many think that being happy and content is the ultimate goal in life. However, the enlightened man realizes that the Socratic gadfly is a necessary part of truly living too. Sometimes that which disrupts your peaceful and happy life is the same goad that sets you on the road to doing greater things.

My family has many interesting people in it.

For instance, I have a cousin who came home from school one day and informed her parents that she would be leaving Oklahoma that summer to go biking across both the South and North Islands of New Zealand. She did just that, alone, at 16. Later she and her brother rented a sailboat and spent another summer sailing the Caribbean. She then spent several years at an EPA research station in Alaska.

My Dad has picked fruit with migrants in California, won a national championship in college sports, worked as a telephone lineman, served in the Army, served as a volunteer firefighter, taught industrial arts, farmed (with mules when he was a boy), coached track, basketball, volleyball and football, taught history and social sciences, served as a school counselor and drove the school bus. Dad's day consisted of getting up at 6 AM, holding counselling hours, teaching all day, coaching in the evenings, then driving a bus route to take his out-of-town athletes home in the evening. He also built at least one house each summer when not teaching (at least 23 in this small town alone), and I don't mean "contracted" either -- built. He also does fine woodworking, like building kitchen, china, gun and curio cabinets, ornamental bowls and boxes, etc. Dad has been an outdoorsman all his life and has spent as much time camping, hunting, fishing, boating and skiing (both snow and water) as I have, if not more so. At 85, he still is a better shot than me, and I'm no slouch at marksmanship.

Here is an example of his work:

[Laurence Drake]

metis has done so many things but has he ever tried shitposting before?

[noissance]

metis has done so many things but has he ever tried shitposting before?

He would be the best shitposter, if he tried. He has the knowledge to back the BS content shitposts spread.

[Goodspeed]

I don't see the point of learning such skills considering how close we are to automating them. Though as a hobby DIY can be fun I'm sure. Primitive technology is an awesome channel.

At this point though, knowing how to operate a vehicle and how to manage a bank account are more important "real-world" skills than any kind of handiwork. I mean I made it to 26 without ever having touched a drill.

[momuuu]

:hmm: I don't see the point of learning such skills considering how close we are to automating them. Though as a hobby DIY can be fun I'm sure. Primitive technology is an awesome channel.

At this point though, knowing how to operate a vehicle and how to manage a bank account are more important "real-world" skills than any kind of handiwork. I mean I made it to 26 without ever having touched a drill.

You're a medical wonder. I'm pretty sure you're supposed to be long dead by now when displaying such a lack of basic real-world skills. I guess you're just another kid that only plays video games in his safe and protected environment.

[Goodspeed]

Lol yup. And that "safe environment" is only going to get safer from here. I'll admit though that if some global disaster happens and it's every man for himself I'm probably fucked.

[iNcog]

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