It does indeed suck to work every day. It sucks even more when you work seven days out of the week. It also really sucks when you're spending 12+ hours at work on a fairly regular basis, even on weekends.
So, I can see why one would not want to do those things.
I kinda work every day - by that I mean doing something for other people that I'm obligated to do.
After much research, I think a new guitarist would want this:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003101894435.html
(I already have luthier's tools, and many of them.)
What I think sucks more than working every day is a job where you do the same thing every day, day after day, with the same people around you all day every day, day after day, doing the same damn thing you did last week or last month or last year and then doing it again tomorrow.
I am not built for that kind of a job. That is the one thing I like about the work that I do, it is always different.
That would probably be a handy tool kit to have for a guitar player.
I think this thing from that very page is something that a new player might really like
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002657792354.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000023.1.211e29b7CPiBxy
I have a tuner built right into my amp. I don't trust the thing you linked to to be even remotely accurate. Hell, I expect it to snap strings.
I do have a string winder. I even have a battery powered string winder - or three.
I used to work in a factory where I did the same thing every day. It was a bit physically taxing, but it really only sucked when something stopped production and you had to sit there for an hour twiddling your thumbs. Today, I'd just play on my phone during downtime.
It wasn't bad. While it was physical, it wasn't mental. You really didn't have to think a whole lot once you got good at your job. I didn't mind it that much.
Consider, I've done real physical labor - like lug concrete forms. A factory job ain't bad at all after that.
I don't mind physical labor, to a point. I helped a friends cousin move yesterday, and of course they lived in a second floor apartment and were moving to another second floor apartment. That was a lot of up and down stairs. I have always enjoyed jobs where I am active more than jobs where I am sitting in a chair behind a desk. I don't think I would want a super taxing job though, I do not like to be sore and achy from work.
And I was thinking that new guitar players biggest challenge a lot of the time is having the guitar in tune. There have been many occasions where I was asked to tune a guitar for people who don't know how to play and are trying to learn but they just can not figure out how to get the damned thing in tune so it sounds good. I thought a beginner would want something like that, that supposedly is going to tune it for you
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