Earnings depend on a composer's professional reputation, as well as whether the composition is for studio recording, live performance or movie production. Good Chefs are responsible for preparing meals that are tasty and attractively presented. They work in restaurants, hospitals, ships, vacation retreats and industrial cafeterias. Chefs may also be trained in apprenticeship programs offered by professional culinary institutes, industry associations and trade unions. Writers develop original fiction and nonfiction for books, magazines and trade journals, newspapers, technical reports, company newsletters, radio and television broadcasts, movies and advertisements.
Editors select and prepare material for publication or broadcasting and supervise writers.
A bachelor's degree is generally required. Employers look for a broad liberal arts background or, for example, degrees in communications , journalism or English . Following their own designs, or those sketched by their customers, they shape and carve wax to make a model for casting the metal. The individual parts are then soldered together and gems are mounted, if desired. Colleges and art schools offer programs that lead to a degree of fine arts in jewelry design.