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Originally Posted by Mister
To be honest I am not sure what you mean by inside vs outside work. I do not pretend to know the industry well. He works for a shop in the Greater Boston area and describes his work primarily as setting diamonds.
I could making good money as a Master or even maybe a Journeyman, but at ~20 years of age you would be at best an apprentice, I just don't see it.
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Inside work is when a big jewelry company like lets say Cartier has their own building and workers making the jewlerly. Outside work is when Cartier sends the jewlery outside the company name to other jewlery bussiness who makes jewlery. The advantage is that outside work makes more money (most of the time do a better job and faster) but your not always certain of getting work while inside jobs makes less money but your almost always certain to keep your job.
That's more or less what it means.
Talk about off topic eh?
Also the sad part about diamond setting is that after 40 or 50, no one really wants you. Your eyes wear down and the accuracy of the hand isn't the same. Its quite ironic to see younger setters making more money then the older ones.