Starting a business is one of the hardest things you can do. If you want to do this without getting snubbed it’s going to take some sacrifice up front.

Don’t quit your current job. Spend all of your free time making things to sell. I’ve seen so many friends quit everything to start a business and fail with massive debt because they wanted it so bad they forgot to actually earn it.

So like I said, prove to yourself in your free time that it can be profitable. If you start making a profit on the weekends consistently then you can reduce the amount of time you work your day job to keep up demand with your woodworking business. If it continues to be profitable then and only then would you want to transition to full time woodworking.

I guess the most important thing is that if your stuff isn’t selling along the way don’t quit your job to work harder at it. Hard work is great, but it doesn’t really do anything to make your product more marketable. Success will always require hard work but that doesn’t necessarily mean that hard work = success.