{"id":11249,"date":"2020-02-08T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T07:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2020-02-08T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T07:57:09","slug":"doing-it-yourself-to-learn-even-if-it-costs-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/doing-it-yourself-to-learn-even-if-it-costs-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing It Yourself To Learn Even If It Costs More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many times when you need to fix or create something that you don\u2019t specifically have knowledge in you then seek out a professional to help you with that task.  It can be expensive but usually it\u2019s for the peace of mind that it will hopefully be done right.  A lot of times people then debate if they should buy a do it yourself kit where it is probably cheaper to get the parts.  However, it will cost you time to learn it of course.  So in that sense you won\u2019t really be saving anything immediately and you have an increase chance of failing.  But should you do it anyways?<\/p>\n<p>If it isn\u2019t something urgent that you need right away I think it\u2019s actually a good investment to try do it yourself solutions in various cases.  Even if it costs you more time and money now I can imagine the knowledge and skill you gain will be beneficial later on should the situation ever arise again.  My best example of this is building a computer.  When I bought all my parts individually in many cases I didn\u2019t\u2019 really save much versus buying a per-built system since I don\u2019t have the buying power that a large company has.<\/p>\n<p>However, learning to build a computer from ground up definitely helped where I knew exactly how to troubleshoot stuff and do upgrades myself when needed.  That is just from trying it too as opposed to needing any schooling of any sort.  That\u2019s just a quick example of how investing time to learn how to do things can have a long lasting value down the road if you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many times when you need to fix or create something that you don\u2019t specifically have knowledge in you then seek out a professional to help you with that task. It can be expensive but usually it\u2019s for the peace of mind that it will hopefully be done right. A lot of times people then debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1746,1637,1114],"class_list":["post-11249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-cost","tag-do-it-yourself","tag-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/drone40.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2Vr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11250,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions\/11250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}