u/strawbbythem

Ive been looking around for apprentice jeweler positions in my area and I have a few interviews/bench test coming up next week. I’ve taken a years worth of metalwork and stone setting classes at the local arts center, and I was feeling pretty ok about my experience being decent enough to start as an apprentice, but one of the jewelers made a comment about “having to reteach me everything”when I mentioned the arts center classes, which has made me feel less confident about my skills. How much experience did you have when you started off as an apprentice? I am now worried I’m just going to embarrass myself at the bench test

EDIT: thanks everyone who has commented for sharing your thoughts! It’s reassuring to hear that I’m probably overreacting to the comment. I do have a tendency to overthink small things like this, I will work on not psyching myself out so much 😬

How do you know when you’re ready to try extended butterfly? I’m a little terrified to loosen my knee grip, but I’ve been doing regular butterfly for about 6 months now and am curious if i could be ready to try it. Any tips for not falling on my face?

I have learned a few other types of stone setting like bezel, prong, basket etc and im wanting to level up my skills and learn how to flush set. There’s lots of tutorials online that I’m planning to use to learn and practice, but I was wondering if anyone here has their own advice or tutorials you would recommend for learning this type of setting?

Recently someone who is active in this sub was kicked from the Polerinas discord for displaying and actively defending hatred for sex work. How do you all feel about someone like that being a part of this sub?