Blacksmith
Career
Qualifications
To become a blacksmith you need experience and often a teacher. Education is not directly needed to become a blacksmith, but it can help depending on what kind of education. History, minerals, and techniques can all be taught, but there is a big difference between doing and reading. Most successful blacksmiths are good because of experience and love for their work.
Career Progression
Blacksmiths progress their careers alongside their skills. When a blacksmith becomes better and learns to work with new materials or learn new techniques they can take more and harder orders to earn more money and gain more fame.
Payment & Reimbursement
A professional blacksmith can earn everything from 10 gold a month to thousands of gold depending on their skills and their customers. A blacksmith who can forge rare, beautiful or powerful weapons will always earn more than those who can only work with simple materials and make simple tools, weapons, and armors.
Other Benefits
The best blacksmiths can expect to earn fame and recognition from their village or entire countries. R
Perception
Purpose
Blacksmiths are very important to villages, towns, and cities. They make anything from tools, armors, weapons, agriculture implements, furniture, defenses, cooking utensils, and all kinds of useful items. All villages need a blacksmith and those without one will have a much harder time than those with. Blacksmiths do not only serve as creators but also inventors, many of the technological advances in history are made by blacksmiths. Many blacksmiths can also serve as dentists.
Demographics
There are many blacksmiths in the world, but it is nowhere near close to the number of other professions like farmers, tailors, carpenters, masons, etc.
Operations
Tools
Blacksmiths use a high variety of tools. Most of the common tools are hammers, tongs, chisels, anvils and bolster plates.
Materials
A blacksmith can not work without his metals. Blacksmiths work with all kinds of metals like iron, dark iron, steel, silver, tin, lead and copper.
Workplace
Blacksmiths are known for working in a forge or something close to it.
Type
Engineering
Demand
Blacksmiths are always in high demand.
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