The thought of Mozzie made Neal homesick. "Apprenticeship. More or less."
He paused, thinking it over. "And getting to know experts. People love talking about what they love, and there are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to make synthetic gemstones. Everything I learned about how to spot a counterfeit, I learned from a gemologist who made synthetics for a legal living. You want to learn how to fake a Degas, get to know someone whose spent their life studying his works. You want to learn your way around elevator security systems, well. In that case I got a job installing them. I found the best and studied everything I could under them."
He huffed a laugh. "I learned by doing. And after a certain point, I started taking the small jobs I knew well and scaling up. ...What about you? Why law?"
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He paused, thinking it over. "And getting to know experts. People love talking about what they love, and there are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to make synthetic gemstones. Everything I learned about how to spot a counterfeit, I learned from a gemologist who made synthetics for a legal living. You want to learn how to fake a Degas, get to know someone whose spent their life studying his works. You want to learn your way around elevator security systems, well. In that case I got a job installing them. I found the best and studied everything I could under them."
He huffed a laugh. "I learned by doing. And after a certain point, I started taking the small jobs I knew well and scaling up. ...What about you? Why law?"