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Join a bee club and get your feet wet around other beeks.
The smoker is the bee keeper's best friend and most important tool. Once you learn how to use it, you'll see its a very handy/important tool that will allow you to work your bees enjoyably with minimal or no stings.
Most people who take up bee keeping get past the stinging issue rather quickly as you will come to find its not that big of an issue if you keep bees that are of a basic gentle nature.
As a beginner you will want to acquire the most gentle bees you can find.
There's a continual learning curve no doubt but once you "catch the bee keeping bug" you will just fall in love with them and your last concern will be getting stung.
When you do get stung just remember to get the stinger out as quickly as possible. This will greatly minimize the amount of venom that you would have received if you had left the stinger in longer.
Believe it or not there are many, many, countless numbers of people who actually welcome a certain amount of targeted stings for anti inflammatory reasons, mostly for arthritic reasons.
Research Bee Sting Therapy or Apitherapy if you're curious about this.
Bee venom has anti inflammatory characteristics similar to cortisone albeit not as long lasting.
I promise you that once you get started, stings will be the last of your concerns, that is of course unless you are highly allergic to honey bee stings, but most people are not and those that do have bad reactions often become less sensitized to stings and reactions are greatly minimized.
I'm a seasoned bee keeper and I also perform live removals from structures of all types and recommend bee keeping to just about anyone.
Have fun on your journey!
...JP