Bench School Week 2 Update

Man.

You think you’ve done something hard and humbling and then you go to a trade school.

This week was plain awful.

We worked on torch, stone setting, burnishing, created a hundred new tools, and I had to guess what every tool was. I think I forget that it’s okay to not know the name of 50 tools when I’ve never used them in my life before 12 days ago?

“Bud bur. Bull bur. Setting bur.”

What?

Are?

Those?

I’m still only 50% sure I know.

But you know - people have done much harder things, and even if being this awful at something is hard, there is always harder.

Our instructor warned us that by week 3 - we’d probably want to pull our hair out. I just hit that slump a week early.

I’ve learned how to hold back tears like a CHAMP. Lol.

I’m honestly shocked I haven’t let a tear fall in class yet. 

“I can…do hard things…ARGH.”

Anyways, week two was hard and I know it will only get harder this following week.

I also know that in 10 more weeks, I will be so thankful for these new skills that will allow me to grow my jewelry business more than I could imagine.

Here’s to doing hard things for your future self and future family and for your younger self. I’ve always wanted to work for myself - and I’ve been lucky enough to achieve that this year.

But I also have always wanted to own a really successful business. So this is me on my way there.

These updates are refreshing because I know I will look back on these weeks one day and be like, “Oof.”

I will also be endlessly thankful to myself for not giving in to my pride and letting myself be remarkably horrible at something.

Time will tell.

I think.