"I have seen techies need assistance for putting a battery into a laptop, he wouldn't be much help if I needed a techie now would he?

Lets assume the comp programmer and the carpenter are 90% proficient in their respective jobs, which do you think will be more useful, not looking at other hobbies or skills"

You can't really try to focus on just their careers though. The guy who writes code for a website could be pulling a Charles Dyson at home in his spare time. Like I said before, as part of the maker community I've seen plenty of people who do amazing things when they aren't at their 9-5.

Proficiency is relevant too. He may be a damn good carpenter by normal standards, but he may not know **** about making his own glues or about hand tools. Sadly the skills that would be relevant in our discussed scenarios are not relevant in modern society. Why should the carpenter bother making tenons with a hand saw when he can just rip them on a table saw?

Personally I wouldn't turn either of them away, both of them might be incredibly useful. As long as they can follow basic directions, i'm sure there will be a place for both of them. The only people I wouldn't deal with would be somebody like the performers from Easy Rider. Those ******* would get shot.

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