Ask HN: Work on your own car/home or contract out?
Replaced calipers/rotors on my wife's Passat, renovated a bathroom (led to updating some wiring in my old home). Do hackers spend time on this stuff or spend their wealth on contractors?
My personal feeling is that a specialist can always do the job better and faster than you can. Same as you can write code faster than they can. Always outsource unless you know what you are doing. Whilst you are learning on the job renovating your bathroom, you could be earning money.
Not that programming isn't nice. It's just... sometimes you don't want it then. Chocolate is nice too, but you don't want that all the time either.
Pretty rare for me to hire someone to do something. Unless it's plumbing or working on the car. Those are a bit messy.