Journeyman is the first step to perfection

"There is no limit to perfection!" - as the well-known saying goes. However, there are always those who can perform some kind of work better than others. They are admired, they are idolized, they are hated ... But very few people know that the work of the master is often the laborious work of his assistant - an apprentice.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The apprentice is the master's apprentice. In the old days, it was the name of any person who worked for hire. As a rule, apprentices were given to boys from poor families who did not have a chance to independently pursue a career or obtain an inheritance.

Initially, the apprentice could reach the master level. However, everything was complicated, first, by the fact that the origin of the assistant was important to the master: only closest relatives took pupils, who often could not have the necessary talent. Secondly, the fact that really talented young people who did not belong to the master's class, had to pay a huge entrance fee, which not everyone was able to do.

It is for these reasons that the apprentice is a failed master. Most of these folk nuggets have not been able to reach the top of their career, despite talents and talents.

Eternal Journeyman

Bad is the soldier who does not dream of becoming a general, and consequently, the apprentice who does not dream of becoming a master is bad. Of course, most apprentices always aspired to the position of master.

However skillful as the master, most of the work always fell on the shoulders of an assistant. To reach the professional level, the apprentice needed to create a "masterpiece". Of course, only a few could cope with this task.

The majority of wage workers remained eternal pupils. However, this is quite natural. In the old days it often happened that the apprentice is a gypsy, a nomadic peasant, a master of a narrow specialty in search of a better life. However, in the new place the students rarely found recognition.

Revolting of apprentices

The slavish position was often a factor in rallying and uniting apprentices into groups defending the rights and freedom of free workers. However, not a single association, whether it be a commonwealth of artisans or workers, has not achieved proper success. Moreover, a lot of rebellious and lost work apprentices were left without a penny for the soul, and therefore, were doomed to beg.

Be that as it may, the rebellious workers began to wander, becoming a special estate. They became one of the main driving forces of the revolutionary masses.

Apprentice today

Today an apprentice is any hired worker. At the stage of probationary period, such employees are called pupils.

The most talented, diligent and attentive candidates today can reach the highest levels of the career ladder. The best of them easily master the path: apprentice-apprentice master.

How to become a master student

Today everything is much simpler than in the Middle Ages, and anyone can become a student, who has the data necessary for a certain type of activity. Moreover, today everyone can say about himself that he is a student. Apprentices for any type of activity are necessary links, this is today the starting point of a career. And it is right! Everyone can achieve a certain level of skill.

For example, an auxiliary worker may well be considered as the student of the master of the construction site . A person of a creative profession can fully rely on a senior patron, and for a big businessman or a politician, the closest assistant can become a student.

However, the best teachers were and still are natural talents. So, no masters are able to educate a genius, if they do not find in him a gift given by nature.

Mastery can not be bought, educated or developed. It can only be revealed and improved throughout his life.