Bao Loi: Design Craft Workshop

2022-06-16

Bao Loi: DesignCraft Workshop "That's a good point, because social media can be a good tool for you or it could just be a life draining mess. If you're always thinking about the views, subscriber counts, if that's what you're in this for, you'll probably get burnt out real quick." Bao Loi Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast! Today, your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Bao Loi from DesignCraft Workshop. Bao started as an architect, went to...

Bao Loi: DesignCraft Workshop

"That's a good point, because social media can be a good tool for you or it could just be a life draining mess. If you're always thinking about the views, subscriber counts, if that's what you're in this for, you'll probably get burnt out real quick."

Bao Loi

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast! Today, your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Bao Loi from DesignCraft Workshop. Bao started as an architect, went to architecture school, got his license and everything. But not long after graduating, he found himself missing working with his hands, so Bao found that he needed to make a change.

“Being able to go out there on a daily basis, working on your models, working on building stuff. I definitely missed that. So after school, I stayed in town to save a little money, and I was able to work on our projects and build stuff. When I entered the workforce, there was a huge disconnect between what architects do and what they teach you in college.

Many new graduates might have that shock of going through college and into the workforce; it’s totally different. That affected me a lot. So I purchased my first table saw to sell stuff because, in college, that’s what we did. That started my journey on woodworking part-time, just doing cutting boards starting out. From there, it went towards more commissioned work, furniture builds, built-ins, etc.”