[Jewelry making - Article 00138] - Re: [Orchid] Jeweler's former lives

[frank goss]

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    Let's see. So many jobs where do you start. Here are some of my
    pre-jeweler jobs and then a quick trip on the jeweler coaster for
    the next 31 years with all of its wonderful up/down/loops/turns
    thrills and chills, keep your hands and feet in the car at all times
    and enjoy the ride. 

    BBA in Marketing Texas A&M University 

    window dresser and display designer for a major department store 

    carpenters helper 

    display carpenter 

    Museum display designer/ installer and model maker (started my
    Jewelry career part time some where in here) 

    Commercial display designer and installer 

    First commercial jewelry job at a production bench 

    Lease operation at a Lapidary and rock shop 

    Opened my first gallery studio 

    Closed same 

    Lease jeweler for National chain store (7years) 

    (BURNOUT from 7 years at chain store, lasted six months before I
    could go back to the bench) 

    open my own job shop to the trade 6 years 

    Back to lease operation for a national chain 

    Remount jeweler for south Texas territory (2 years on the road and
    it was a new job or a new wife, it was cheaper to keep her!!! : ) 

    another job shop for the next 9 years 

    opened my own studio and gallery and started selling through
    galleries. (911 economic crises Where did all the business go????) 

    Moved to Arkansas for a real job in a family owned store with a (I
    still can't believe) salary (lasted 2 years) 

    Back to my own Job shop again, and selling through galleries, doing
    my own designs and remembering how much I love working for myself.
    over 30 years in the trade and I still learn something new almost
    every day and I still love making the stuff.. its Saturday and I am
    at work, nothing pressing just going to play around in the studio and
    do something fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Frank Goss
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