Not usually but just today I made a foray into surface mount soldering to mount a 2mm^2 8-pin package onto a breakout board. I'd planned to manually cut a breakout board but underestimated just how damn small it would be. Luckily a friend with a laser engraver volunteered to help and we managed to zap some breakout boards. I manually added paste (after a few false starts I used a needle like a fountain pen to dip into a blob of paste and dab it onto the traces) and reflowed it in a toaster oven. :D

Solder paste under the microscope: https://i.imgur.com/IiTKmrS.jpeg

Closeup of reflowed solder, maybe a bit janky but it went better than expected: https://i.imgur.com/9wbV8nc.png

Finished test board hooked up and working: https://i.imgur.com/xZduEUt.png