Tschan+-+Career+Research

The career I chose to do for this project is to make jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets, earnings etc. For this job a person would have to hand make every piece of jewelry using many different beads and wire. Skills and talents required for this career are good eyes, you need to have good eye sight if you are working with beads of all sizes. You need to have some type of fashion to know what beads go with what and to make it look good. You need a lot of patience. Its funny because i really don't have good eye sight and rarely ware my glasses and I am not a patient person what so ever. Schooling seems very easy but very expensive. American Jewelers institute offers hands on training and courses that can be completed in four months. Students learn about several styles and materials of jewelry through out history. They have to make several jewelry pieces through out the course. Your best way to go is to have an internship with a jeweler store teaching you how to do basic repairs and to create designs for the store. Once you have gotten your certification for graduating you can start your work at a craft store or a jewelry store to make name plates and simple bracelets and chains and setting gemstones. Certified jewelr desighner prorams also allow students to work with different types of metals. Certified master jewelr programs allow you to study about gemology and diamond grading. This teaches you how to create and appraisal and how to do wholesale purchasing. Soon you will be on your way to making high end braclets, diamond rings, faceplate's and basic types of jewelry. Tuition cost between $5,400 and $43,500-plus. Classes themselves cost between $500-2,500. Salary after schooling, would would be making around $28,000 a year. This salary is 17% lower than the average jewelry making jobs nationwide. A typical day in this field would be fulfilling customers needs by making sure what they ordered fits them and is what they wanted, if not I would have to re-size them and change what is on their ring, necklace, bracelet, etc. My self promotional piece will be a very small box. It will have a design on the inside of all of the different bracelets i have made and will be the back round of the box on the inside and maybe outside as well. For sure, on the inside will be a bracelet or something showing them what i am capable of doing and how the piece of jewelry is crafted. It will have information on the inside of the box giving them my name and other information on what i do and what i am capable of.

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