[Jewelry making - Article 01118] - Re: [Orchid] Apprenticeships?

[kevdan]

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    Hey soul sounds like we agree there is no substitut for doing it all
    day everyday even the most inept knucklehead will get good by doing
    it all day. Case in point I do work for other people and sometimes I
    get these guys who have taken early retirement so they can pursue
    their passsion they are in their mid fifties early sixties and think
    that since they have been dabling out in the garage in the evening
    and selling to friends think that they are masters. They soon
    realize that in order to get good at somthing and get to a
    professional level it takes a lifetime of work while they were
    slaving away at the 9 to 5 at a bank we were really slaving away
    learning the trade and gaining skills and making no money. I have
    been at it for 14 years and have only now begun to see a little pay
    off for all the years of work. If I had taken a job at Mc donalds or
    Walgreens I would be halfway to retirement and would probably be
    some sort of manager or something and getting paid decently. In my
    obit I dont want it to say I wasted 30 years of my life as an
    associate at walmart. I have made tons of jewelery and hopefully
    some of it will be treasured by future generations and when they see
    my stamp they will wonder who i was. 

Kevin

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