One aspect I enjoy about woodworking is that there's no "undo". Or "repeat". When you've spent 10 hours doing joinery on a work piece, you tend to be really ca

One aspect I enjoy about woodworking is that there's no "undo". Or "repeat". When you've spent 10 hours doing joinery on a work piece, you tend to be really careful before sticking your knife, saw or chisel into it. And when you realize that you've done a knife mark on the show side, you know you've fucked up (just did this last week on a piece with 30 hours in it). It's a very good balance to software engineering. It's (arguably) an engineering discipline but a very different kind.