Comment by crdrost
12 hours ago
I mean people do make a living doing it, but my understanding is that it requires a lot of hustle—as a hobbyist you can just take your time and meditate and take a million pictures, but if you're trying to make a living you have to focus on volume, volume, volume... So you have to have a system, this one goes in the cleaner and you are immediately disassembling the next, another is in a tray next to the machine that tells you how fast or slow it's ticking... It is maybe less glamorous than it first sounds.
Can one end up working for TAG out of this for example? What does it take for that career ladder to happen?
To my understanding it depends mostly on the applicant age.
Watchmaking can take a heavy toll on eyesight, due to working with magnifying glasses on tiny parts during decades. Also each brand has unique processes and machinery, for which they have expensive learning courses.
Thus they would rarely consider applicants past their forties even if they have experience and favorable relations.
Probably going to the school above is a good start.
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