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My Skills and weaknesses

I have always wanted to start my own furniture building business and I know that that requires tremendous amounts of skills. I first found my love of woodworking while in grade 7 when I had the opportunity to take woodshop and instantly loved the creativity of the woodworking projects. I continued with woodshop all the way until grade 12 and then diverted from that path for a few years to take environmental sciences at Fleming college. When Covid struck I moved back home and decided to take a different program all together and enrolled in Carpentry and renovation techniques at Niagara College. Throughout the 8 years of woodworking experience I have picked up on many different skills that will help me in this endeavor like the design process. I have always really enjoyed working with CAD and have seen my skills with it grow and am now rather comfortable with designing different projects in a few different softwares such as Autodesk Inventor and  AutoCAD. I have also picked up on many building techniques like how to process rough sawn lumber and how laminate that wood together. I have picked up on the skills required to use woodworking tools such as a router/router table, jointers, planers, and many different types of saws.

I do however lack a few crucial skills to running a business like knowing how to run a business. I also tend to have poor time management skills and often leave things until the last minute. I also tend to get too focused on one thing, especially if it is really annoying me and I can’t work it out. I’m often too kind and have a hard time saying no to people which has come back to bite me a few times. I can get rather overwhelmed when I see how difficult something is and will often choose to just ignore it instead. I have seen first hand how difficult it is to run a business when my parents suddenly had to start running my grandfather’s limestone importing business when he became too old to do it himself.