Working to master your English skills?
As an equities trader, frozen yoghurt chain founder, real estate founder and Accountant (prior to getting into woodworking in 2019), I think I can answer this from a unique perspective.
With ‘zero experience’ growing up in fact, you could almost say it’s discouraging being in an ethnic family setting and wanting to even try do physical labour.
Why? To them, it’s the stigma of ‘being paid next to nothing’ during farming or building stuff’, when in develop nations it is so not that.
We have minimum wages etc, great accessibility and much more. So don’t be discouraged if you’re young, just yet!
Why I love it
- Free exercise
- Teaches you patience, problem solving
- Makes you grateful for having your hands while you build your motor neuron skills
- Being able to make gifts vs buy them for friends which means a LOT more emotionally speaking
- Repairs are now not only next to free, but easy to do and something you look forward to now vs dreading
- As the world shifts from internet boom 2000, to app n fintech boom 2010–2012, the current boom is digital and gaming. This means physical skills are becoming rarer and rarer, yet machines are no way close to accuracy - not even near. This means that these skills eventually will be not as common as one may think.
Woodworking is one of the few things you can also do solo so it’s an amazing therapeutic and sense of ‘I did this on my own!’
Also now, I hate the idea of someone wasting wood haha
For me, it's the peace, the pleasure of working with my hands and the satisfaction of a job well done simply because you can, not because you have to.
I could say a lot more, but that's essentially the long and short of it.
I do it because I enjoy it, and I enjoy it because it's satisfying.
It can be fun. It meets a very basic human need, to fashion something with out hands. Humans have always been ‘ thing makers', and taking a piece of wood(or pieces) to make some thing meets that need. It can be relaxing.
The challenges and rewards of a job well done. Also, you don’t have to depend on a furniture store to have exactly what you need or want. You can design and build it the way you want. People also appreciate hand made gifts you make them more than any store bought item. Wood working comes from the heart.
For me, it's the peace, the pleasure of working with my hands and the satisfaction of a job well done simply because you can, not because you have to.
I could say a lot more, but that's essentially the long and short of it.
I do it because I enjoy it, and I enjoy it because it's satisfying.
Well, it’s better than watching TV. I get to work with my hands. My wife rarely bothers me when I’m out in the shop. I get to own things that I otherwise couldn’t afford. I can build things for other people that they enjoy. My job really isn’t fulfilling. It’s a great excuse not to do the dishes.
For me, I love the smell of the freshly cut wood, especially cedar. It’s also very satisfying to be able to make something in the shop and have others appreciate it, or just to be able to use it every day.
I like to make things that are usable, and attractive. I love how woods look, smell, feel, and just the activity is so enjoyable. Knowing that I am making something that could still be around and enjoyed 100 years from now. It’s kind of an immortality thing.
Necessity has always been the mother of invention. Since the Dark ages mankind has learned creativities from shaping things out of clay and wood and stone. Although wood is light and easy to shape with the right tools it can be used in the practical sense like a lamp holder or cup holder or furniture that we all can enjoy. Then over the years it has spawned an industry for all as well. It is making something with your hands and enjoying what it does for you that makes people enjoy woodworking. The varieties of wood are amazing too.
It is tactile and, at the end of the project, you can be proud that it came from your hands.
It is very satisfying to turn a piece of wood into something beautiful and useful. It smells good, it feels good, people love what you make. What is not to enjoy?
I think you should do some homework on brain anatomy first.
It's like meditation to me. Once you get your rhythm going, your mind empties itself of all thought and you are relaxed and experiencing just that moment. I also love the feel and look of yarn and watching the piece grow.
yes, it is easy for cutting, joining, giving shape, polishing etc when compared to metals. Final finishing is also only one operation and is long lasting .
Read better stuff.
Because I want to make sure nothing can hurt me.
Because, if I dominate everything - the people around me, the outcome, the environment - I will know what to do.
Because I don’t trust myself to get through uncertainty or change.
Controlling others is not a choice but a compulsion, not something I do out of pleasure but because I can’t not.
I do it because I am afraid.
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