Would it be a waste of time to learn programming/coding skills

Just become a mason breh, pay is actually on par with what you'd get with most shitty tech jobs.

>>59213435
that sounds like some serious heresy

>>59213477
Nah m8, I get paid 30K a year to do it. Apprenticeships are virtually free once you join a big construction company.

You don't sound like you belong in tech if you don't want to make a career out of it, becoming a mason may be perfect for you.

why would you learn it if you don't want to use it? i mean, you can make anything a hobby, but if you don't want to make money off of it then i'd recommend doing something else.

>>59213509
>30k
jesus christ man how little do you think devs get paid

pathetic

>>59213602
Yeah well OP doesn't sound like he's going to go risk a quarter million dollars to go get a shitty Cum Succ degree anytime soon for a 0.00001% chance at a six figure job as a "dev" anytime soon.

Just trying to help lad, I actually enjoy being a mason desu.

>>59213421
>Would it be a waste of time to learn programming/coding skills if I have no interest in pursuing it as a career? Could it be useful just to become more tech-savvy?

If you want to understand how things work, then sure. Having basic scripting/programming knowledge helps troubleshooting. Knowing Bash/Python would help during pretty much any text processing or data parsing too.

I think that being able to plot and understand how and where information flows on your computer is a better first goal though.

>Is there such a thing as "hobby projects" in programming

Yeah, if you know how to glue the parts together.

One of the most basic examples is a home media center which, while it doesn't strictly require scripting knowledge, it would be useful to have for post-download moving/processing and being able to read others' open source code in order to find/fix problems with your own setup.