Hello everyone,
I’m Jamie Noel Koslarevic and graduated from Hogwarts last year. Since I’m freshly out in the work force I’m writing today because a whole lot of you are either close to doing that step yourself – crazy how fast 7 years go by innit? – or you are still a year away and are looking for work experience recommendations.
I didn’t know what I wanted to do after graduation until about half way through my sixth year. If you ask Juliette Moore she can tell you I had a list of dozens of options and where I ended up wasn’t even part of that list. However looking at it from the ‘now’ lense it made sense.
As a kid before Hogwarts I enjoyed taking apart electronics to find out how they work, during Hogwarts I got really into charms, transfigurations, potions and even more artificing. Mid 6th year we had a surprise visit in Art class of Alice Hawkings from Snitches get Stitches and she demonstrated how Metalcharming works. The moment I saw her work something clicked and I just knew. I did my summer experience at the shoppe and was included in a great project – creating a telescope – and observed her and other metalcharmers work on cauldrons and other smaller projects learning quite a bit.
Luckily I made a good impression and could join the shop as an apprentice right out of the gate after graduation. I haven’t regretted it a second since. It’s not only repairing cauldrons -which is what you see most of the time when you visit us during Hogsmeade Sundays- clockworks, enchanted items, telescopes, enchanted jewellery pieces and a lot more are part of the daily work. I am learning about blacksmithing, welding, design, even physics and how clockworks do their thing.
Should you have -like me- a list of things that you want to try out and want to know if the next great invention is possible to be created with the tools of metalcharming, this is also the right place for you to find out! So no matter if you are looking for a spot for work experience or to apprentice after graduation, Snitches get Stitches is a great place to get into metalcharming! And on top of that, you’d get to work with me. What’s not to like?
Jamie