Hello Everyone,
I have a question I’ve been wanting to ask in here for a while. I apologize if anyone doesn’t think this belongs here since this is not a question about a bike repair, but I’m honestly not sure where else I would ask this…. This is kind of a long winded question too so please bear with me:

Part of my day job involves constantly repairing, fixing and rebuilding string instruments, a Lot. It’s pretty constant, and I always have a huge queue of broken instruments that I need to repair, I never seem to catch up, I don’t actually think that’s possible. I’m always fixing the instruments and at the same time the small humans I work with are always breaking or wearing down the instruments, which is to be expected, but it’s like a constant game to keep up with their daily instrument needs.

Anyway, my question is this: I really enjoy tinkering with and fixing things in general, always have, but I’ve noticed when it comes to my free time I just can’t get as excited about fixing string instruments as I get about working on my bikes, even though I’m far far more qualified to work on string instruments than on bikes.

I’ve been curious for a long time: do Bike Mechanics experience the same thing? Or the opposite thing I mean? Do you all have other tinkering hobbies that you do in your free time as an escape from your day job of fixing bikes? Do you ever experience or have you ever experienced bike mechanic fatigue?

Just curious. Looking forward to your thoughts.
-Erin