A "journeyman" is a skilled worker who has successfully completed an official apprenticeship qualification in a building trade or craft. They are considered competent and authorized to work in that field as a fully qualified employee. A journeyman earns their license through education, supervised experience, and examination. Although a journeyman has completed a trade certificate and is able to work as an employee, they are not yet able to work as a self-employed master craftsman.The term journeyman was originally used in the medieval trade guilds.Journeymen were paid each day, and this is where the word ‘journey’ derived from- journée meaning ‘a day’ in French.Each individual guild generally recognized three ranks of workers; apprentices, journeymen, and masters. A journeyman, as a qualif