I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others—above all, the caregivers—whose work isn’t about something you can put in a box and sell.
—— Why I Am Not a Maker DEBBIE CHACHRA JANUARY 23, 2015
This article is really interesting to me, because it holds an argument that sit at the opposite of the view of the majorities, which is that other jobs are as important as the makers’ job. This is really important to me because I know that the role of “maker” is highly recognized in current society, and makers are considered valuable people. However, I am not good at making or creating stuff. I love doing music since I was a little kid, but when I entered my high school, I found that everyone considered the “hard sciences” such as math and physics more important than music. I had once really worried about myself, fearing that I can’t be a valuable person in the society of the future. Afterwards, I changed my thought. I started to believe that although I might not be a “high-value” person in the society, I can still enjoy the thing I am doing, which could also provide me with happiness. But this article claims that “the ‘other’ jobs are also important” because they are also doing things with or for people. It encourages me to know that I can still be a valuable person by doing what I want to do. The goal of participating in this course is to know what kind of methods a maker will harness rather than change myself to purely a maker. By knowing these knowledges, I can express myself more effectively. For example, If I know how to use Sketchup, I can make an interactive 3-d model about what I saw while traveling, which is really fun.
