[Jewelry making - Article 00169] - Re: [Orchid] Employment in the Metal arts/Jewelery Field

[Nanz Aalund]

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Dear Michael,

    You could probably get a job as a bench jeweler's apprentice in the
    Chicago area. Check in the phone book's yellow pages under Jewelry
    Manufacturer's or jewelry repair. Call, make appointments, hand out
    your resume', have examples of you craftsmanship ready to show. 

    As far as a decent paycheck goes, I can only hope things are better
    in Chicago than they were in Seattle. Cheap immigrant labor kept wages
    so low in that area, being a barista at Starbuck's paid better. 

    Working as a bench jeweler, for all the slamming it gets on this
    forum, will teach you the skills you need to make jewelry and make a
    living. And hopefully you'll even get paid while you learn. Watch how
    the shop is run, get to know contacts in the business, fined master
    craftsmen to work under. 

    I got my platinum training from a master platinum smith that I sat
    next to as a bench jeweler. To this day my repair skills still come in
    handy every time I am trying something new and I accidentally melt
    some part I didn't want melted. I don't have to start over, I know how
    to fix it so no one can see the fix and so the fix is not a weak
    spot. 

    Don't stop going to school, keep taking workshops through local
    metals guilds, and vacation at the Revere Academe or Penland. Never
    stop adding to your skills.

Nanz Aalund
Associate Editor / Art Jewelry magazine
21027 Crossroads Circle / Waukesha WI 53187-1612
262.796.8776 ext.228

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