subject: Professional Jeweler - Is It For Everyone? [print this page] Becoming a professional jeweler can be quite rewarding, but it is so deceptively simple to get into the business that many do not correctly research the particular day in day out life of a jeweler. It is thought that this text will go quite some ways towards rectifying this tragedy, for many are the bright-eyed hobbyist-turned-entrepreneur who winds up burned out and even in debt within 2 soul-searing years or even months.
For the jewelery business is awfully competitive, and just like with any retail operation in today's business climate a firm foundation in basic finance and promoting is completely mandatory. Many hobbyists underestimate all of the factors concerned in simply staying in business, never mind yet being successful.
Odd hours are de rigueur because this is retail, so you may certainly be working weekends and holidays. Then there's the real matter of security. It is far easier and profitable to mug a jewelry store than take on a modern bank. Not the industry is an extremely threatening one, but such concerns are guaranteed.
And the nature of jewellery is such that great expenses will be concerned, inventory that costs a large amount of cash and yet that might not move sufficiently quickly for you to pay all of your bills punctually. Still interested? Why not first work for a jeweler and see what it's really like first hand from the ground up. This business is founded on trust, and that means making connections.
Working for an existing jeweler is a good way to go about meeting folk and making you known in the industry. Who knows? You may very well realize that you like jewelry far better as a spare time pursuit than as something you have got to stress about each hour! For that is also very much a seasonal business given to feast-or-famine cycles of activity.
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