For any carpenters, woodworkers out there, how did you get into the business?

Question

What made you decide thats what you wanted to do?

How did you get to the point of where you are now?

Answer 1

I worked for a construction company prior to my senior year of high school and liked it. After graduation I started out as a helper but found a man that was willing to let me learn the carpentry ropes. I asked many of the older carpenters to teach me their trade, which most were glad to do. After that I became a self-employed subcontractor framing, trimming, and roofing houses. That evolved into opportunities to build houses as a builder, which I still do. The basic drive to success has always been sheer determination and maintaining an honest business approach. What I enjoy about construction is primarily the satisfaction I find in driving by a project, whether commercial or residential, and knowing that I made that project a reality for someone. Plus, I'm always working in various locations, which I prefer.

Answer 2

Flawed premise. Yeshua/Jesus Who Is GOD...Is Perfect. +++"Jesus was a Carpenter CHURCH POSITION “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary…” (Mark 6:3) SCHOLARS "...the Greek word for 'carpenter' in the gospels actually stands for an underlying Aramaic term that is used metaphorically in the Talmud to denote a scholar." (Porter, 2004, p. 81) "In the Gospels, Jesus is called a tekton, a Greek word that meant not merely a carpenter skilled in making cabinets or furniture but a designer, construction engineer, or architect. A tekton could build a house, construct a bridge, or design a temple." (Starbird, 2003, p. 53) THE REALITY Nothing is known about Jesus’ middle years. A century after Jesus died, there were many tales about his infancy and childhood. A famous Greek martyr named Justin claimed that Jesus made ploughs and yokes in his father’s workshop, Most people think that Jesus was a carpenter. The Gospel of Mark says: “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary…” (6:3), although Matthew has a slightly different wording: “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary?” (13:55) [1] It is highly unlikely that Jesus was a carpenter. If we examine the 48 parables that occur in the Gospels, not a single one draws upon the experiences of a carpenter. Three of them refer to buildings (e.g., house divided, foolish builder, unfinished tower), and these may offer support for the idea that Jesus’ father was a builder, not a carpenter. [2] It's also possible that Jesus and his family belonged to a group known as The Sleb, a still existing band of Bedouins, found mostlyin Syria, whose ancestry and customs include not only the Essenes but claim to go all the way back to Cain. This would explain the propensity to travel, which Robert Eisler (1931) has argued (in The Messiah Jesus and John the Baptist), claiming that Jesus’ family plied their trade in the timeless manner of the Sleb. Interestingly, the Sleb were known to be accomplished in carpentry, masonry, building and a whole host of skills, and they fit well within the definitions of tekton, the name used to describe Joseph’s occupation. They were also known to be healers (Sinclair, 1952).

Answer 3

Good to see some Peers here.

For me it was born of neccesity. I was raised on a farm in the 40's and 50's and if something broke; we had to fix it. From there it grew from the fact that my grandfather; beyond being a 6th generation farmer; was also a Fine Furniture maker. I never attained that level, but my interest; trades education by osmosis, and practice; eventually became habit.

I'm at a point where I am still learning. Evolution also involves all levels of trades work; and one can never truly know it all; or perhaps not ever enough???

I have other, more ethereal passions; which I engage in daily; but what I do in the trades allows for groceries, and in many ways; "tangible" evidence of "Can Do."

Steven Wolf

Answer 4

I think that somewhere in your family tree someone must have been working with wood.It's got to be in your blood.My grandfather was a wood worker building wood boats.I started as a gopher on a finish trim crew.I learned in time how to do everything in the trade and started my own company.I have four trim crews with five men on each crew.I have been doing it for over twenty years.I love it and think it's the best job in the world,but you have to find what you really want to do with your life.

Answer 5

I was fortunate to apprentice under a top-notch Swedish boat-builder. I just needed a job (life was bleak), and somehow I got a trade that I love.

Answer 6

Somebody was going to get paid for doing this, and it might as well be me.