[Jewelry making - Article 01260] - Re: [Orchid] Apprentice Jeweler

[Elaine Luther]

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    If you're looking at jewelry stores and don't have enough skills to
    offer, that could be the problem. 

    Two suggestions: 

    - go spend a month or two at trade school, improving your trade
    skills and marketability 

    - stop looking at jewelry stores, and look at factories 

    Woo hoo!  Just what you went to college for, right?  To work in a
    factory.  It's a start, and you can work your way up. 

    My first job out of college was in a wedding and engagement ring
    factory.  My boss was a hunchbacked old guy, who was coming to work
    in sweats because he'd just had a heart attack.  He had no
    fingernails.  I thought it was from jewelry.  No, he said, that
    happened in the war. 

Elaine
Elaine Luther
Metalsmith, Certified PMC Instructor
http://www.CreativeTextureTools.com (TM)
Hard to Find Tools for Metal Clay

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