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...such jobs require more schooling than many white-collar professions. To become a journeyman diemaker, an apprentice must complete 8,000 hours, or four years, of shop work, practicing on-the-job skills for an average of just $4 an hour. In addition, the apprentice must also finish 600 hours of course work in a vocational school or an in-house training program. As skills improve, earnings pull ahead. In many shops a full-fledged diemaker can make as much as $40,000 yearly, with overtime. Such jobs in the U.S. rank seventh in lifetime earnings, behind insurance and real...
Some companies do operate effective in-house training and apprenticeship programs, but the cost is high. At Jenkins Bros, in Bridgeport, Conn., it takes an estimated $20,000 and up to four years of on-the-job training to develop a journeyman machinist. Cincinnati Milacron, the nation's largest machine toolmaker (1980 sales: $816 million), cranks out no more than ten journeymen machinists a year from its own apprenticeship program...
...Salaman is a lovely and spirited prin cess of this mythical realm. It must be said that the uninspired stretches throw the film's magical moments into high relief. The final confrontation between Richardson and the rude beast, a confrontation in which Galen finally rises from apprentice to journeyman in the dragon-slaying game, is grippingly orchestrated. The sequence is as well made and exciting as anything one is likely to encounter in a summer already crowded with good work by those modern Merlins, the special-effects technicians...
...give a team that loses an athlete to free agency one of his new club's picks in the annual draft of amateur players. Even with these limitations, free-agent bidding quickly soared into the stratosphere, and owners found themselves throwing millions at sore-armed pitchers and journeyman outfielders. The owners' solution: force the big spenders to give up a working big leaguer, not an untried amateur, whenever they signed a free agent...
...Billy Martin. A journeyman infielder who grew up tough on the streets of Oakland, he parlayed his limited skills and limitless daring into a solid major league career. Ask the Oakland A's. They finished in last place in 1979, 34 games behind California in the AL West. Playing Billyball, they finished second last year, though 14 games behind the league champion Kansas City Royals. Says Pitching Ace Mike Norris, who won Oakland's 1981 opener with a six-hitter: "Billy gave us the confidence that in past years we didn't have...