A Glass Sculpter

A Glass Sculpture Career

Qualifications

The Glass Sculpture's learn and master the skill of making and working with glass at the mirror factory. They have to commit to 2 years in this craft, and have a strong arm for the labor intensive job. One can move to work at the Mirror factory at age 16 after ones schooling is done.

Career Progression

The first year you are assigned to the unpleasantness of shoveling sand and rock for use, but are taught an hour at the end of each day in the more delicate operation of manipulating glass. Producing silica is the first task they learn as many hands are needed for this, the more they can complete the more glass they can work with threw-out the week.
Then they are shown how to cut and polish the glass made by the dragons, then the skilled few are trained in glass blowing.
Only some men will learn the skill of glass blowing because it takes a lot of fuel to do, and if one can not do this well it is not worth the wood to train you at it. One has to show aptitude for this skill in their first 3 tries to produce lenses. These men make the lenses for the tinted glasses and can earn a living doing this for vases and other glass wear. The can also repair a chipped lens.
The Mirror Factory produces a steady supply of the mirrors used in the light box, and the tinted glass for sun protecting glasses The Mirror Factory do not put the finishing touches on these items, as it makes more sense for the men at camp to be focused on the production of glass and tin since they have to live out of town to do these things.
The men with no aptitude for glass blowing are also trained in how to polish knifes instead of just glass and are given all the tools to do this well. Knife sharpening is not a skill a member of hope valley will do, they leave this task to the glass sculpture's because they have provided the important materials of mirrors and the tinted glasses that make life pleasanter and do not want these men and their wife's to suffer because they do not have something to trade when they leave the Glass Factory to start a family.

Benefits

What attracts the young man to venture away from home is the vast improvement on higher end luxuries then they would have had if they came from a less skilled family, like having meat and pastry at almost every meal, cobbled shoes instead of sandals, and Farce feather beds, and a hot spring of their own to indulge in every morning before bed.