[Jewelry making - Article 01128] - Re: [Orchid] Apprenticeships?

[kevdan]

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    Most independeant jewelers earn very little even though they spend
    their days working with very expensive items. I think alot of people
    are misinformed as to what a jeweler earns prior to getting my job
    from hell I earned about ten bucks an hour working in stores when I
    first started I got nothing then after a year or so i got minunmum
    wage I never got health insurance or vacation or anything. Most
    stores that I have worked for that where independently owned, they
    could barely scrape together payroll every week and some weeks there
    was no payroll he would just owe us. That is why most stores will
    not take an apprentice because if he or she cannot bring in money
    there is no room for them. The last store I worked for my wife told
    me that I had to hold out for at least eleven bucks an hour so that
    we might be able to buy health insurance on our own since we never
    had any before and having a child and no health insurance is crazy.
    Well I almost passed out when they gave me 25. Everything has a
    price though. I would not give up being a goldsmith however i dont
    encourage any one to become one. 

Kevin

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