Thread: Woodworking and IT

Yeah I have the opposite need, I work on building sites all day and cant wait to get on the computer. weird or what??

Al

I've been in IT for most of my working life, and just love to get into the workshop for a bit of therapy.

Stare at a monitor all day and just pine (I mean redgum) for the shed - wish i was there more often but only for the joy of tinkering and making things recreationally - would never wish it a career change. I enjoy fishing but as a job - never.

Cheers

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Yeah I have the opposite need, I work on building sites all day and cant wait to get on the computer. weird or what??

This moderator thing's gone to your head Al: I WANTED TO SAY THAT!!

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I'm not in IT but I work with intangible policy stuff........mainly staring at a monitor. Making something tangible with my hands is great therapy.

Then again, I kiss clients asses all day, does that mean I should be doing the opposite for a hobby? Abusing people?

Started off woodworking, moved into IT well before 'twas called that, earned a couple of BA's and ended up back in woodworking when IT became, in my eyes, just another desk job.

Wish I'd spent the uni money on tools or a shed instead...

Originally Posted by LineLefty

Then again, I kiss clients asses all day, does that mean I should be doing the opposite for a hobby? Abusing people?

Why not?
Go and kick a homless bum, maybe you can make a hobby of it.

Al

Originally Posted by LineLefty

Then again, I kiss clients asses all day

Confucious, I think it was, said something like:

"Give a man a job he loves, and he'll never work a day in his life!"

P (Don't know why I typed that Lefty!)

I tend to think that people in high stress jobs find woodwork relaxing without sending the head into a vegetive state.
As it can also be creative it fulfils needs that they might not be able to satisfy at work.

You see something happen in a reasonable time frame, without any meetings about it.

I reckon echidna is close to the mark. One of the (many) things I like about woodworking is the chance you get to actually solve a problem. Run into a problem or something needs fixing (or minor modification ), think of a solution then fix the bloody thing yourself. No need to form a committee, have dozens of meetings and achieve nothing.

Why can't we just actually do something these days?

Sorry - just got home from the office. Better head out to the shed for a while........

Glenn

I've been in IT for most of the last 23 years one way or the other - for the last 6 years or so as an IT Manager. So that means I get to listen to people whinge, whine and complain all day.

I like my job. I must be a massochist.

BUT, my hobby gives me a chance to work on my own, use my hands as well as my brain, and produce something physical and substantial for a change.

I think as much as anything else it gives me a chance to produce things that rarely attract anything but thanks and praise. People love it when I give them a chopping board I made. I give people a new computer or a new piece of software at work and most can't do anything but complain. 'Why can't I have a laptop instead', 'But I wanted that software as well', 'Why can't I have my own personal photocopier'. Ungrateful, whinging bastards the lot of 'em.

I think if I didn't spend my weekends in the workshop I'd wind up heading into work with a large weapon one day and going completely postal

I will put my hand up, i am a ba day, but started woodwork before that, but i found that after spending all week at a desk job, getting out in the shed to get my hands dirty was good.

Took up woodwork as I didnt have a garage, so couldnt work on the car.

Originally Posted by DarrylF

I think if I didn't spend my weekends in the workshop I'd wind up heading into work with a large weapon one day and going completely postal

Cool look forward to seeing it on the news..

Al