[Jewelry making - Article 00137] - Re: [Orchid] [Quincy, Illinois] Gem City Jewelry School

[daniel]

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Aufin

    Unfortunately it has been my experience over many years of trying to
    get into the industry unless you have a degree, or years of previous
    employment, no one wants you. No one does apprenticeships anymore.
    Understandable so as they are so busy trying to make money and keep
    the business going. But the days of "on the job training" are long
    gone. At least in the Midwest. School are the only way in the door
    anymore, and even then it siffy. Most want a fully trained, fully
    skilled machine to walk in an just work. In a perfect world I guess
    this is possible, but yet, that is what I hear the most. And I have
    tried many times over the years. Sometimes I hear they found just
    that, sometime I hear they thought they did, and dont like what they
    got. Either way, its the parchment that gets you in apparently, so I
    guess that is what I have to do. I have the feeling it will just put
    2 more years between me and my ultimate goal, but that is the system
    we now live in. You can not walk in with a case full of work and a
    book full of pictures of past jobs and get employed. You need to show
    you spent thousands of dollars to go to school before they will
    believe your dedicated enough for them. The other way is that you've
    already established a name and a following for your work, and why
    would you want to work for someone else then. I've been working at
    this for many years, and that is what I have deducted from all my
    time and work.

Daniel

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