| Are you a woodworking hobbyist, who is looking to | | | | carpenter will see your level of ability within 15 minutes, |
| make money in the woodworking industry? If you are, | | | | but he will decide to keep you on depending on your |
| you can make money, no matter what your level of | | | | ability and approach to employment. |
| skill. It is a great industry to be in, because of the fact | | | | He may conclude that you do not know enough, but |
| that you can make money as a woodworking novice | | | | he may reckon that you are worth a try, because you |
| making simple items and selling them and, when you | | | | seem keen and eager to work. On the other hand, you |
| become skillful, someone will offer you a job or you | | | | may have bags of ability, but if he sees a lazy or |
| can stay self-employed.. | | | | insolent streak, you may be up the road anyway. The |
| Even a complete beginner woodworking amateur can | | | | foreman carpenter will be experienced and will know |
| make clothes pegs and clothes hangers. These can | | | | what kind of person will fit in and whom to give a |
| be sold around the neighbourhood or to a local shop, if | | | | chance to. |
| you do not like the idea of selling yourself. After a few | | | | Site work is clearly different from woodshop work, so |
| weeks, as you gain experience, you can move onto | | | | keep that in mind when you ask for a job. Just |
| swing seats, chess boards, stools, bird tables, dog | | | | because you can measure accurately and cut neatly |
| kennels and wine racks. After a few months of that, | | | | with both feet on the ground, it does not mean you |
| you could attempt a garden bench. After that, you are | | | | can cut a roof in while balancing on a rafter 20 feet in |
| away. | | | | the air. |
| The key to any woodworking project is the | | | | If your line of learning is as I have suggested above, |
| woodworking plans. A set of drawings or even just | | | | you would probably be better off looking for a job in a |
| one drawing, an exploded diagram, of the item to be | | | | woodworking shop or even a cabinet maker's shop. |
| made. The plans will give a clear, exploded diagram, all | | | | Or an up market kitchen cabinet manufacturer's, |
| measurements and angles, a narrative, explaining what | | | | where you can learn more under supervision. |
| to do first and possibly pointers too. | | | | Later, you can move on to fitting the items others |
| The suggestions could be about the wood to use, the | | | | have manufactured in peoples' homes, which takes |
| skill level of the project, the estimated time it will take | | | | another kind of talent. People skills come into play here |
| to complete, the tools to use and the finish to give it. | | | | too, because the public can be rotten when they are |
| Once you have acquired the skills to make different | | | | paying to have work done. Stick with your |
| items of furniture such as garden benches and garden | | | | woodworking or carpentry, whichever route you |
| tables, you can go looking for a full-time job, if that is | | | | decide to take and you may be the foreman |
| what you would like. A word of warning though, do not | | | | carpenter within a few years. |
| try to be what you are not. A good foreman | | | | |