Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
I have invented the Thermometer style.
I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.