I am an aspiring Gary Barnidge, meaning I want to make millions during my day job, but keep it blue collar and be a hero for 2nd and 3rd shift. By all that, I mean that I don't have many blue-collar skills, but I love doing stuff. So the reason I went with 96 square foot pavers on top of leveling sand on top of gravel on top of some queer anti-growth gardening layer was that I don't know how to pour concrete. I wouldn't care but my pie-in-the-sky project is to re-do our deck to look like this:
which is stained concrete to look like slate, which means likely I'll have to outsource it. The shed foundation would have been good practice, but it's a bit of a risk having a couple of tons of concrete setting wrong... Here's where someone is supposed to reply and tell me that the deck project isn't that hard, btw...
My general rule is that I do what my wife will let me get away with, within the constraints of time, and it can't be too hard (skilled not labor) of a project. This means that when I watch it on youtube, I have to say "piece of cake", and that it will take around 6x the projected amount of time. For the deck, I might rent/buy a jackhammer and do the demolition, since I can't irrevocably fuck that up.
So yeah, RGIII, don't fuck around and come back and win us any games motherfucker. I can't afford the time to be interested.