Despite the tendency of high schools across the nation to cut back and in some cases even eliminate their woodworking programs, woodworking jobs do exist nationwide. In fact, of the 20,000 or more occupational descriptions listed by the U.S. Department of Labor's; Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in their Dictionary of Occupational Titles, over 200 fall under woodworking. And according to that agency, in 1996 there were nearly 400,000 people filling those woodworking jobs. (About 10 percent of that number were self-employed.)
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