i just read a thread about a man working with his son that got me thinking about my own son and work, when the time came for him to start work he wanted to join the police force but was not accepted as in that year there were only 12 vacancies with 26 applicants and 17 of them were children of serving officers he was extremely disapointed not to get in so told him not to worry if he didn't find anything that he wanted to do he could work with me i was secretly quite concerned when he said that he would as he has always been accident prone and working with anything sharp could have been disasterous for him .the first two years were a nightmare with the damage he managed to do in the workshop ,dropped tools ,broken tools ,dinged furniture ,even 3 broken chairs in one accident that were finished and ready to be delivered,luckily only minor cuts and scratches to himself ,then overnight it seems everything dropped in to place and his clumsiness disappeared he had come through with all his fingers still in place and turned into a very proficient woodworker which he still carried on after i retired .now his son is working with him so it turned out quite well