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CRAFTS — 200/262 — Journeymen and apprentices

A journeyman was a craftsman’s assistant. If he went out into the world to ply his trade, he needed to have a vocational certificate and the tools of his trade. Rarely did journeymen stay in one workshop for an entire year. Typically they were there for just a few weeks, on one week’s notice, paid by the day (‘journée’). If a journeyman left without agreement (absconded), he was ‘proscribed’, outlawed from hire by other workshops, his identity written down and disseminated. An apprentice was a boy accepted into apprenticeship by a master craftsman in a special ceremony before other guild masters. Entry was made possible by paying a fee in cash and beeswax. Wealthier boys might complete their apprenticeship in as little as one year, while poorer ones had to work off their debt over several years.

TRIVIA

— Following the completion of apprenticeship, a journeyman in some parts of Europe was expected to undertake a period of travel known as the Wanderjahre (wandering years). Such travelling journeymen were called wandering journeymen. This practice, originating from the medieval period, required the craftsman to spend several years moving and working between towns and regions. A customary duration of three years and one day was most common, even today. The tradition was particularly widespread in the German-speaking lands, but was also known in France and parts of Scandinavia. It was observed across a variety of crafts, including carpentry, joinery, metalworking, millinery (hat making), instrument manufacture, and other trades. In the Middle Ages, the number of years spent travelling differed across crafts. Only after half of the required travelling years (Wanderjahre) would the journeyman register with a guild for the right to train up as a master. After completing the travelling years, he could settle in a workshop of the guild and after several more years, he would be allowed to produce a "masterpiece" and to present it to the guild. With their consent he would be promoted to guild master and as such be allowed to open his own guild workshop in town. A part of a journeyman's attire in the Middle Ages could have contained a golden earring or a golden bracelet; they could be sold during hard times or they served as payment for the gravedigger if they died on the road. Today, the night before setting off from home, a future journeyman traditionally hosts a farewell party. Over the course of the night, a hole is made in their earlobe with a nail, for an earring to wear throughout the journey. Tradition holds that anyone who breaks the rules will have the earring torn out, marking that person with a cleft lobe, or a "split-ear", a German term for a crook.

I call it my main character timeline work because it’s deeply engrained in what I do for a living.

You see, I’m living the life of a modern worker by day and a member of a counter culture lead movement to infiltrate and take control of a powerful workers union.

Yeah that seems like a lot but you don’t understand what it’s like to be there, my family made there living from that hell hole for 5 generations. I’m the 5th; before i entered that place I’ve been through rougher places but I was still advised to talk to 4th generation to see what they had to say. 4th mostly avoided answering, passing off the honor of obvious trauma spilling from their thousand yard stare before they could even form a sentence. I see now, I see now. Life is not meant to be lived like this as a way to survive.

In fact being there has only made me see so many things. If I don’t do something now my life would be trapped and i nearly believed it was. Until i met the counter culture.

“Would you believe working in a union that takes a part of your check and still some how can’t stop the unfair treatment of the workers?”

“Do you realize how much time you will spend at work and never break even with bills?”

It was those few questions that made me feel like for the first time someone understood what I was saying.

How peculiar, someone so far off in age where my contemporaries have failed to inspire me this random old man who should be retired spoke to my soul for a second and made me realize I hated everything this world wants to force us to play in, to die in.

That is my main character life so far and through my teachings I’ve took my step to make my path in uniting workers in my generation to restore the power to the working class before the next workers contract or global event set upon by our mad tyrant of a king and I’ve finished my first arc gaining 122 votes to change the trajectory of workers rights in our recent election

Post election and growth results

I’ve gained allies, realized there are many others counter cultures under the same banner looking to change the world (but can we work together) I met a city elected commissioner and his daughter who was running in the same race as me and surprisingly more youthful.

In the middle of the elections I became engaged and through my studies she has been patient with me and I realized I’ve spent too much time with the effort and I must spend time with my greatest teammate at least until the summer, you see to put the cherry on top of this I’ve been selected in a raffle to go to solidarity house, the unified workers guilds resort and teaching headquarters, The bane of my counter culture groups ire.

I’m not sure how to feel about this place. In fact in all of my time researching and getting to know workers I found out quick what to and what not to say, at least too soon without support and I do admit I’ve punched too high with my first addresses to the complex of workers uncovering information that should have been long buried. I’m not sure if I even should have said what I’ve said to be honest but no time to think about that, I’ve been invited into their prestigious Hall this coming summer.

My family is shocked at how my life is progressing as if I’m in places i shouldn’t have been so soon, truthfully they are right to wonder, the reason why my life have been progressing this way, is because be beneath it all I’m following the rules of my astrology chart and numerology energy.

I know it sounds like bullshit but honestly after I learned my astrology signs, life path number and lost my mind*(Leo sun, sagittarius moon, Scorpio rising, my life path 1 and *I spent and entire year losing my mind and gained a new one with an understanding and conclusion that if we are made be god and what he created is good then at all cores of humans are good, then it’s my mission to help people remember and reconnect with that good by helping people lose their current mind)

Honestly I’m coming to a cross roads. I’m sorta shocked too, I’ve imagined being in a position to change the world and now invited into its halls not to mention a glimpse of there struggles maintaining workers rights. I know I can make a change and seeing that the guild already have the strength why not become the change from the inside. And in my current Astro chart i knew I was lined up to go an a trip and expand my learning experience so ending up in this position I know it’s made for me. I haven’t told my team yet because I know how they feel about the place but I see how I can change the world with the established power that’s facing a strike and unfair attacks from the company over heads.