My stepdad had a short middle finger because of an incident with a saw. Despite that mishap, he continued to build things. He built a really cute little chicken house for my pet chickens. We lived in a house that he built, and he had built every structure on the property, as well as the property where he kept the commercial chicken ranch.
You just have to be careful with saws. Very careful. And maybe wear hearing protection because they are so loud.
Any carpenter worth his salt is missing fingers. /s