How does a molecular biologist become a jewelry maker?


Well, yes, a sharp change. Or maybe not so much?
To be honest, I loved working in my first profession. I liked the daily consistency, that every day approx. I went to work at the same time and came home from work at the same time. Of course, this is not entirely true, because if I was teaching, or the experiment I was working on that day took longer, or I had to start earlier than usual, then I left earlier or stayed longer. But we had the rhythm of everyday work, we worked freely, but at the same time, the work was exciting and stimulating thinking and problem solving.

Why did I switch to making jewelry? Of course, now comes the aa part, that I loved creative work even in my childhood and it has been unbroken ever since. Also, it took a long way to get here, many attempts, getting to know different jewelry making techniques, before I got to this point. But it really is. In short, I feel that I have now found what I really want to do. But that it would be very different from working in a lab as a biologist... I don't think so. :)

Making jewelry has its own rhythm. Work phases that follow each other one after the other, just like in an experiment. The birth of the creative idea: setting up the hypothesis of the experiment. Making the jewelry: carrying out the experiment. In the meantime, we encounter so many problems to be solved, we have to refine them here and there so that the result can be born. Finally, the jewelry is completed: the result of the accompaniment series is born. We sell the jewelry using various marketing tools: we publish the results of the experiment in cleverly worded articles.

I see a system in which I feel safe because I follow certain work processes, but at the same time, creativity appears at many points, we work non-stop on generating ideas and implementing them. You have to constantly develop, learn and build. Well, the two professions are not that far apart. :)

To this, of course, we must add the fact that I currently see the future I want to live in this freer, home-based job. Working and creating in the center relatively informally with the family. And this is just the beginning of my journey...

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