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He turned down an Engineering career to pursue this craft: "What made me happy was living in my land"

Postal do Algarve9 September 2026 at 18:50

Ángel finished his Engineering degree in Torrelavega, Spain, and had a job offer in the field. Still, he decided to turn down that opportunity and return to the land where he was born to work as a carpenter, a choice driven by the desire to be close to his family and to live in the environment where he had grown up.

Since childhood, Ángel was familiar with woodworking work, as his father and uncle were carpenters. During the years he studied away, he would frequently return on weekends to be with his parents and help with the family work, which led him to realize that he did not want to remain far from his homeland.

The Engineering training ended up proving useful in carpentry. The technical drawing he had learned was especially important in the design of stairs, while the knowledge of trigonometry allowed him to calculate angles and structures. Ángel thus specialized in the manufacture of stairs.

When his uncle retired, Ángel continued working with his father. In 2003, both of them built from scratch the workshop where they develop their activity to this day, showing that the decision to leave engineering did not mean wasting his academic training.

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