In the normal way of apprenticing, there'd be a formal contract. To make sure everything was fair on both sides.
The usual thing is that I'd be responsible for feeding and housing you, a stipend, making sure you had all the equipment you needed, and access to books and charts and reference materials. Introducing you to other people in the field. Arranging projects for you to assist with, so you got breadth of knowledge and experience.
And I can't do much of that. Obviously.
I have most of my library and I'll show you how the book trunk works and where things are shelved. And I've got spare blank books for you to use for research notes, and plenty of quills and chart parchment and ink and such, at least for the moment. (One thing I am going to insist on is the habit of daily record keeping. It really is a help later.) And whatever you want of my time or what resources I have, barring the other things we both need to do.
Chances being good that the unexpected will become very urgent sometime.
For equipment - I think you've figured out my personal telescope is precious to me for both professional and personal reasons. But good equipment makes such a difference, and I do want you to use it when appropriate. I know you'll tell me immediately if something doesn't seem right, and you'll be careful with it. (Mind, this assumes I can get a couple of the charms behaving again.)
The traditional apprentice responsibilities usually involve a lot of tedious things like filing and copying and observations on cold nights when your Master would rather be somewhere warm. I'm rather more likely to ask you to check my arithmancy for me, which you don't seem to mind at all.
Beyond that, well. Maybe I should tell you some stories of my own apprenticeship sometime. Alde did a lot to make me who I am, and not just about astronomy. Watching other people and their apprentices, I always thought that was a good model.
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Date: 2015-01-07 02:01 am (UTC)The usual thing is that I'd be responsible for feeding and housing you, a stipend, making sure you had all the equipment you needed, and access to books and charts and reference materials. Introducing you to other people in the field. Arranging projects for you to assist with, so you got breadth of knowledge and experience.
And I can't do much of that. Obviously.
I have most of my library and I'll show you how the book trunk works and where things are shelved. And I've got spare blank books for you to use for research notes, and plenty of quills and chart parchment and ink and such, at least for the moment. (One thing I am going to insist on is the habit of daily record keeping. It really is a help later.) And whatever you want of my time or what resources I have, barring the other things we both need to do.
Chances being good that the unexpected will become very urgent sometime.
For equipment - I think you've figured out my personal telescope is precious to me for both professional and personal reasons. But good equipment makes such a difference, and I do want you to use it when appropriate. I know you'll tell me immediately if something doesn't seem right, and you'll be careful with it. (Mind, this assumes I can get a couple of the charms behaving again.)
The traditional apprentice responsibilities usually involve a lot of tedious things like filing and copying and observations on cold nights when your Master would rather be somewhere warm. I'm rather more likely to ask you to check my arithmancy for me, which you don't seem to mind at all.
Beyond that, well. Maybe I should tell you some stories of my own apprenticeship sometime. Alde did a lot to make me who I am, and not just about astronomy. Watching other people and their apprentices, I always thought that was a good model.