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If you can't see yourself enjoying your work in the future or having a satisfying career, then realize that you are still young enough to have a career change.
I've seen too many people in IT,...

Dunno. I am fascinated by C and C++, and especially the hairy stuff like partial template specialization.

I also like writing service applications and low level stuff to interface one system with...

No worries Tony.
I too like working with my hands. I like restoring straights, and I am slowly building my workshop by hand to try my hand at making a straight.
I spend quite a bit of time of this...

I think Lynn has one. Do a forum search for posts by Lynn containing the word 'Boker' and see what turns up.

I for one am one of the desk jockeys.
I cannot be happier than when working on a difficult coding project, sitting at a powerful workstation 12 hours per day without other people (ok perhaps just 1...

From what I understood from So, most of the Japanese blacksmiths are not rich either. Most of them do not get beyond 'not poor'.
What they make is expensive, but given the time needed to make what...

I know the koordenwinkel. When I was a complete noob to honing I followed a honing course there.
In the months after that I spent a lot of time unlearning bad habits.

And while I haven't spoken...

I think it was Kees who contacted Puma to see if they would do a one off batch, but their last hollow grinder had broken down several years ago, and the grind master had retired a couple of years...