Uh, I'm still in school. I'll get back to you in a bit. Honestly, I fully expect that it'll be tough, and that I'll be picking up jobs that aren't in furniture

Uh, I'm still in school. I'll get back to you in a bit. Honestly, I fully expect that it'll be tough, and that I'll be picking up jobs that aren't in furniture to pay the bills. I just finished painting a deck, for instance. After I finish school, I'll look for a job doing most anything in woodworking that I think I can learn to do quickly and efficiently so that I have a set of skills that can pay the bills. One observation I've heard many times is that people are willing to put a lot more money into their houses than into furniture because they look at it as an investment. Apart from kitchen cabinets, that work is pretty much custom by definition. You're fitting the work to an existing space that probably doesn't adhere to any particular standard. TL;DR: not sure, and I don't know that I've really answered your question. Pete Galbert (and others) have carved out a niche for themselves building Windsor chairs. This works because making really refined ones remains something you can't do by machine. This is for a variety of technical reasons mostly related to the nature of wood as a material. Short version: if you want thin spindles, you need to split them, not saw them, otherwise the grain inevitably runs from one side to the other, and the piece breaks along the grain at some point in the future. Pete got into chairs because he hated making boxes using loud machines. I mention Pete not only because of that niche, but also because he wrote a series of blog posts about woodworking as a career. Thanks for reminding me to dig them up and re-read them: http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2015/06/letter-to-woodworker-part-1.html http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2015/06/letter-to-woodworker-... http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2015/06/letter-to-woodworker-part-2.html http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2015/06/letter-to-woodworker-... http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2015/06/letter-to-woodworker-pt-3.html http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2015/06/letter-to-woodworker-... http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2015/08/its-two-ferplus-letter-to-woodworker.html http://chairnotes.blogspot.com/2015/08/its-two-ferplus-lette...