About

Hi, I’m Lyn B. Borchert.

I’m not yet retired, but close enough that I think about it almost daily.

When I was in my 20’s still trying to figure out what my life’s career was going to be, I tried many many different jobs. Mostly in the automotive and/or construction fields. As a result I learned a lot of different skills. I was never with them long enough to “master” them, but I at least learned how to do them.

Just to list a few here so you get an idea;

  • Short Order Cooking
  • Rough Carpentry
  • Finish Carpentry
  • Plumbing assistant
  • Electrical assistant
  • Roofing repair
  • Small Concrete work
  • Concrete Block Laying
  • Auto Body Work
  • Auto Paint
  • Custom Metal Work (wire welding mostly)

Those were all things I did for a time to earn money. Before that I had many different hobbies as a teenager.

  • Model Rocketry
  • Model Railroading
  • Macrame’
  • Leather working
  • Woodworking
  • Ceramic crafts
  • Sewing of clothes from patterns
  • Crocheting
  • Knitting
  • Jewelry crafting

And probably a few more that I’m just not remembering right now.

It wasn’t until I was 31 years of age that I actually found the one thing that I not only enjoyed doing but I was also good at doing. Believe it or not, it was Computers. All things computers became my passion and maybe even my obsession.

Fast forward 25 years and while I still like computers a lot, I no longer have the desire to “play” with my own machines after working on other peoples’ machines all day. I’m finding that I want to “get away” from computers and high tech things for some slower paced and a little different mental exercises. Even more I feel a need to create some things in the physical world. Maybe it just me trying to relive my youth a little bit.

Whatever it is, I found that having some woodworking tools and making some useful things out of wood was very relaxing and the kind of escape I wanted. Then I found that there are a bunch of like minded people that are doing that and making videos of what they are doing.

The more I thought about it the more I thought maybe I could do that. Why? Well, it could become some extra retirement money at some point in the future if I did enough videos. So while I am doing this for my own personal enjoyment, I’m also hoping that it may help supplement my old age retirement funds which really could use some help.