I'm split on the topic. I think there is value in working with your hands on a service basis, but don't believe in trying to build things.

My father was a farmer for 40 years and built a business that was supposed to be his retirement. Then the government eminent domained his water rights without any compensation, destroying his life's work, and leaving him and all the other farmers in the area high and dry.

Now I don't build anything that isnt cashed out immediately.