Where did this Come From!?

A lot of people have been asking me lately, why woodworking? How did you get into this? Why cutting boards? Amongst these questions and many others I wanted to give everyone a little insight as to why I'm trying to "monetize" my woodworking.

Without getting into to much detail, I'm on the cusp of leaving the job I've had for most of my adult life (military). And for most of my adult life I've enjoyed doing one thing more than most (besides spending time with my beautiful wife and family); flying! I've been a pilot for the better part of ten years and now you're probably wondering what flying has to do with woodworking? Well as a pilot, I seek out jobs as a pilot, because, like the age old adage, "it's not work if you love what you're doing".

Now that I'm nearing the end of my time in the military I've been working towards getting a job, as we all do! I'm fortunate in that I found a job as a pilot and I'm very excited to start the next chapter of my life. However, this next chapter comes with a some costs...mostly monetary if I'm honest. But in the long run it's going to be a great career that will afford me and my family a lot of wonderful options in the future. But this monetary cut has been weighing on me. And this stress got me to thinking about other ways I could supplement my income, while still doing something I really love, and I'm really passionate about....

Here's where woodworking comes into play! I've been restoring and building things out of wood for a while now, and like I said in one of my earliest posts, I have a passion for it. I enjoy creating something from my mind, imagination, and passion. And I take a lot of pride in what I do. Now this led me to want to learn more about my chosen hobby, which lead me to Facebook pages about woodworking.

One day I'm looking at Facebook and I see a video post from one of the woodworking pages I follow, and it's about CUTTING BOARDS. Yep, I saw someone else make this really cool looking end grain cutting board. I did some more research and I found that these cutting boards were all over the place and seemed to be pretty popular. Well I decided at that point that maybe I could create my own unique designs, and maybe, just maybe, someone would actually want to buy one from me. It's a similar story for clocks as well. Although I haven't made any recently, just today I started two, and I expect to finish them this week. I'll post about those tomorrow, so stay tuned for that!

Back to this post. I set a modest goal for myself, I want to bring in just a little bit of extra money each month, and I want to do it by doing something I really enjoy doing.

So there ya go folks! I've had a couple of sales, and I hope I have many more in the future!