Occasionally, I wonder how people regard my profession as a carpenter and business owner. I can see how some people see my profession as an athlete. Others may think of my profession as a backdoor to earn a decent living without formal training. I’ve come across others who probably see this career as a multi-step career in which you start as a laborer and end in some sort of management position.
see my job through many lenses, but to the outsider, I think my job is easiest to understand if you compare it to how a magician executes a magic trick. I know that this comparison may be corny to many, but I think that this comparison has a lot of truth to my job as a carpenter.
There are many types of magicians, which include the amateur to the ultra-professional, just like the world of carpentry. Some magicians are flashy and try to exploit all the visual and auditory senses as much as possible. Just as there are some carpenters who have all the fancy, expensive equipment and props that exploit customers’ assurance that they can execute a project, light shows, booming audio, and fancy equipment do not execute tricks or projects, but they certainly can help.
When I am executing a task in carpentry, I am operating in a world of imperfection. Overall, I am battling imperfect measurements, imperfect equipment, and imperfect materials. Like the magician, I am fighting the environment to perform a task, or in the case of a magician, a trick. My job is creating an illusion in an imperfect world that can withstand time, just as the magician is visually trying to convince your brain and your eyes that the trick performed appears real.
A professional magician who executes a trick well can blow your mind. The first question is, how did they do that? A well-trained, experienced carpenter also begs the same question.
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