[Jewelry making - Article 00818] - Re: [Orchid] Salaries for Jewelry Designers

[Jerry Smith]

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Cameron,

    I agree with you 110% I have little training, but create jewelry. I
    am an artist that works in many mediums, metal, stones, paint, pen
    and paper. I am not bogged down by titles and whatevers. 

    Where I live, they say that I am a crazy artist type, but I am THEIR
    crazy artist type. That makes me feel really great, beyond warm and
    fuzzy. 

    Sometime in the next week or two I will be thinning down nickel to
    use in jewelry, mokume and other things I want to make, while trying
    to figure out where I am going to build my brick forge (1500 bricks,
    4' x 8' plus chimney), I do tradional blacksmithing. Then on to other
    projects. 

    Over this coming summer we are going to put in two new building and
    then start planning my bronze foundry. 

    The way I learned to do most things is by trial and error,
    imagination and reading books. I do talk to a lot of people when I am
    at a gathering on how they have done things. 

    We used to live in a community, where people kept saying that they
    have to think outside the box to get things done. So far they haven't
    gotten much done. I keep telling them that I live outside the box. 

    I gave up a large suburban home, stores 10 minutes away, three really
    good customers 20 minutes away with cash, to a smaller home with
    land, all to live my dream of my art. I am much happier and more
    productive. 

    Oh Salaries for designers, I don't know what would be. I haven't had
    a salaried position in over 10 years. But my Dunns shows me at 512K. 

Jerry

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