This week I discuss how time can be both our best friend and our worst enemy in regards to improving our woodworking skills and completing projects. I might also go off on a tangenty rant about video editing software for Windows.
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Hey Dave,
I feel your pain associated with Windows based programs.
Here’s a rather amusing rant you may enjoy on the subject.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/7
As for the time/hobby question. I agree, a person needs to have balance in their life. To me a hobby denotes something a person does purely for enjoyment. If whatever it is morphs into something that is no longer enjoyable, there goes the hobby.
Hi Dave,
I was listening to this episode while on a road trip to Chicago for the Lie-Nielsen Tool Demo and Seminars at Jeff Miller’s Studio/Workshop. I had to laugh, because as you were talking about the question about is too much woodworking bad for the amateur woodworker.
I started remembering back in the day when “the Norm” was on HGTV twice a day and I would tape both episodes so I could watch them at lunch and then again after work. I had a huge stack of video tapes, all properly labeled of course.
And then there was also the monthly trip (o.k. 2-3X a month) to the magazine rack at the bookstore to buy anything that mentioned woodworking. I’ve managed to dwindle that pile down to just a few select issues out of 2-3 years worth.
There are other “sources” of woodworking goodness that I won’t go into, but in the end I came very close to that amateur burnout moment myself.
That was when I really re-evaluated what was important to me and what wasn’t. I started to concentrate on basic skills and started to figure out which tools I really needed and the rest is history.
You’re absolutely right that a good balance between life outside of the shop and inside is important to every woodworker.
Keep up the great thought provoking shows…
Matt
Hola Dave,
I’m catching up on my podcasts and blogs and I wanted to comment of the Hobby vs. Pro thing.
If you can look at the process of any skill building as it relates to a hobby, you can see that it grows in levels and or seasons, depending on the commitment.
In my case, it was simple. I liked woodworking and I had a general knowledge of it ,but until I needed it– that’s where my commitment was born, then my levels began to build.
And it continues to grow, from hobby to pro to artisan to a calling.