I really enjoy my current job, getting to work on iconic projects, input in the design etc.
I'd just like to be paid enough to be able to afford somewhere within 30 min commute but apart from that i'm ok.

Is he not back yet?

I like " A cunning linguist"

Also, does anyone believe there's any kids who grow up wanting to be Quantity Surveyors?

/makes mental note

Also these: http://www.raven-armoury.co.uk

Yeah, that's true. If only there was an armorer looking for an apprentice.
Hang on - there is.

I actually thought of doing some Stained glass apprenticeship.
or stone cutting

2 posts, 150 applicants last time. Can't say I'm really surprised. However the point remains that it's simply not something you can do as a 'job' because the market is pretty sewn up. You've got guys like him and Rob Miller already there who are excellent craftsmen with years of experience and an international reputation. So they get most of the business and there's little left for anybody new to get a foot in.
I'd love to spend a year or two learning it but it's the kind of thing you'd do for pleasure if you win the lottery or something. Even given the number of applications he gets, I think you'd have to be a bit mad to consider it as a career.

There are a lot of skilled jobs that are like that. Many trades are simply in such low demand that they struggle to maintain the skills needed.

just had to write : "may be considered but it will significantly increase the duration of erection on site" in my report.
Construction is so full of double entendres

The ratio of applicants for my job lower, but not by much. 60 applicants, 12 interviewed, I won.
The thing is, it's a bit specialist, and I'm guessing but you probably haven't smithing skills with an arts back ground.
If you've got the skills, then why not apply? I've no idea what the demand is for their skills - there may be enough to go round. They might be turning away customers or have a long waiting list. What's the current waiting time on a good piece? Clearly they do bespoke work, but there's probably also off the shelf stuff too.
I can't imagine there's the work for a dozen swordsmiths - but when there's a mass coronal ejection that knocks out the electricity, we may be forced to return to a more feudal society, where a good length of steel in a man's hand is more use than a twitter account.

You guess correctly .


The waiting time for an order is in the order of a couple of months I think. Pieces generally only take a week or two but there is often a queue. I'd have to learn from scratch which I wouldn't be averse to doing, getting the basic in my spare time, however you don't tend to get adult education classes in things like metalwork as the resources required are a bit more than say Spanish.


You know, I have seriously considered the fact that if we get hit by a whopping solar flare or whatever and all the computers break down, I could do with another skill to fall back on. Being able to make tools and indeed possibly weapons from all the detritus of our collapsed society might be a good thing...

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