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The career I'm looking at doing is being a saddler. They design, repair, and customize horse tack as well as harnesses for driving. They will often begin pretty general then move into one focus as time goes on.

Patience and a steady hand is what is most needed for this as one small slip up could ruin something worth thousands with dozens of hours in it. A creative mind and a fair amount of strength is also needed.

Schooling ranges but the one requirement is that saddlers must be an apprentice to an experienced saddler before they can get licensed. They can however attend college to study leather crafting or equine studies.

Salaries can be all over the board but start at around 25,000 with a median around 48,000 and for an experienced saddler they can make 70,000 or more.

To get started you have to be accepted to be an apprentice for another saddler for anywhere from 3 years on.

I plan to make a multi panel folding piece with a variety of images on them though I am not 100% set on something yet.

I would make model horse sized tack and photograph it then place the images on the piece. This would illustrate the career by showing off my work in a 2D way in a fairly inexpensive manner.

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