re: How much money can you really make doing woodworking?

Kelly,

Thanks for your input, it was very well put. I thought you were talking about my career in woodworking for awhile. We’ve run along the same lines on a lot of things. I found that if you wanted to survive in this business, you needed to;

1. Market yourself, your business and your product.

2. You needed to find a niche, or another words, be willing to do what a lot of the others didn’t or wouldn’t do.

3. Be willing to change as times and conditions changed. Be able to adjust, adapt and make things work whatever it took.

4. And yes, most importantly…………….enjoy what you are doing. I still have the same passion towards my woodworking as I did when I first started.

5. It’s a never ending learning experience. I don’t care how big or how small a project is, I try to learn something new each and everytime.

6.. I might have been able to make more money working for someone else, but I know I would never had enjoyed life as I have as a professional woodworker.

Thanks again for your input.

John (huff)