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I said yesterday that the main subject i wanted to address next was apprenticeships versus sole-artisanships, so here we go with that. This is another part of my ongoing series of posts in which i attempt to answer the Hard Questions: What do i wish my professors had told me when i got out of school? What advice would i go back and give myself, if i could, and what knowledge do i want to impart that i haven't already?
Everyone remembers from like, 3rd grade social studies class, the idea of the tradesman training model, back when you do that unit on Medieval Guilds and stuff, yes? How, used to be, young folks would learn a trade by first apprenticing to a master of the trade, where they'd do whatever was asked--grunt work, brute labor, cleaning the shop, inventory, finishing work, etc.--all the while learning the trade in a hands-on scenario. And of course, then after the apprenticeship, they'd become a journeyman, where they traveled around from town to town, picking up extra work with masters or on their own if there was no resident master of the trade. And, finally they'd settle down somewhere, join a guild, and be a master wheelwright or stonemason or vintner or whatever their trade was.
I believe that concept is a good lens through which to view a costuming career, in a sense, in that whenever you are working under another costume professional, your role is like an apprenticeship. ( Read more... )
Everyone remembers from like, 3rd grade social studies class, the idea of the tradesman training model, back when you do that unit on Medieval Guilds and stuff, yes? How, used to be, young folks would learn a trade by first apprenticing to a master of the trade, where they'd do whatever was asked--grunt work, brute labor, cleaning the shop, inventory, finishing work, etc.--all the while learning the trade in a hands-on scenario. And of course, then after the apprenticeship, they'd become a journeyman, where they traveled around from town to town, picking up extra work with masters or on their own if there was no resident master of the trade. And, finally they'd settle down somewhere, join a guild, and be a master wheelwright or stonemason or vintner or whatever their trade was.
I believe that concept is a good lens through which to view a costuming career, in a sense, in that whenever you are working under another costume professional, your role is like an apprenticeship. ( Read more... )
