Becoming a jeweler- I don’t want to say too much about where I live and whatnot but basically I moved to a major city and had experience working on small delicate things. Specifically cleaning and articulating bird skeletons for museum and classroom display. I lost a job to COVID and couldn’t find anything doing anything until a major jewelry manufacturer hired me, trained me for 6 months in traditional wax carving, and I’ve just kinda jumped around at different odd jewelry jobs the last few years and ended up with all the experience to pass a bench test, a test jewelry outfits give in interviews to see that you can really do everything it takes at a workbench. I never finished high school and still haven’t gotten my GED, but unfortunately it was luck just being at the right place at the right time. A lot of grunt work at first and in the first year I absolutely destroyed the shoulder in my dominant arm.
