“I'm sorry but I don't know your name.”
“Oh, I should have introduced myself earlier – my name is Richard. I'm the page of Pentacles and I'm on my way to Pentacle Street to deliver the mail.”
“So you're the local postman then?”
“Well, it's only a part-time job while I put myself through college and hopefully university. Eventually I hope to join the blacksmith's shop and work under Timothy. Who knows one day I might even have a shop of my own.”
Richard explained that he had known Timothy the blacksmith since he was a small child because he did a lot of work for his father the King of Pentacles.
“I've always admired him and dad says I can't go far wrong if I aim to be half the man that Timothy is. It was Timothy who insisted that if I wanted to become a blacksmith that I had to make sure I studied hard at school and passed all my exams and now I'm at college.”
“Surely an apprenticeship would have been better if you want to become a blacksmith?”
Richard explained that you have to have an in-depth knowledge of English and applied maths to become a blacksmith. That you have to understand about working within fine tolerances in order to work with metals.
“I could be working on anything from a simple candle-stick to the metal work required to support a building. Getting measurements slightly wrong might not hurt too much if I'm making a candle-stick but it would be disastrous if I got something wrong whilst working on the metal work for a building.”
Richard told me that after college he hoped to go on to university to study metallurgy. He told me that not only would it give him the knowledge he needed about metals as a blacksmith but that it would also give him the choice of going into engineering instead.
“So, it's not set in stone that you will be a blacksmith then?”
“Well, yes and no – a blacksmith is what I have always wanted to be and that's what I am studying for but I have to keep my options open just in case there are too many blacksmiths in the market when I have finished my degree. If that is the case, then the subjects I have already studied will enable me to go on to studying engineering instead.”
“You seem to have it all planned out very carefully.”
Richard told me that if you want to get on in life you have to have a plan and be prepared to study everything you can to make that plan come to fruition. It reminded me of being fourteen and finding my gran's tarot cards and wanting to be the best tarot reader on earth. At the time I thought it was all about intuition and didn't realise that there were a zillion books out there that I could study to learn about all the different nuances of tarot. Of course, there weren't any tarot courses that I knew of (this was before the internet existed and I thought the tarot was just for someone who was born with 'psychic powers') and so had to learn everything through trial and error.
“Don't you get stressed out with all the studying and exams? I remember when my daughter was studying for her A levels she nearly had a nervous breakdown.”
“No, not really. I enjoy learning everything and I know that in the end it is for a reason and therefore I dedicate myself to so many hours of study a day. And the exams are just a yardstick of what I have learnt so far so I don't really stress too much over them.”
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