We always had lots of tools around and we made things we needed. I took a long hiatus from doing useful things while I built a career writing software for a variety of mostly defunct companies. I didn't know they were defunct at the time. I enjoy making things out of wood again.
Wood is real.
Wood is beautiful. Things you can make from wood can last a long time. This is a distinctly different work product from software engineering. I got tired of never being able to show anyone what I did. Nature did the real work of course by growing nice trees.