Apprentice Webmaster

The current Webmaster is Karl Loren who has more than 100,000 web pages on more than 30 web sites -- all published by him over the past 15 years.

There is a time-honored tradition of Apprenticeship -- not much followed in Modern Lands -- yet for many centuries it was the ONLY way a youngster learned a trade or even an art. Kung Fu has kept close to this old tradition since it is a discipline that originated many thousands of years ago -- the "teaching" can well be done in "classes" but the one who would become truly expert seeks an Apprenticeship with a Grandmaster or even a Great Grandmaster. Click here to read about what the famous photographers at the National Geographic Magazine have to say about being an Apprentice Photographer.

You need to be exploited. You have to work hard for somebody else for low pay early in your career. That's how you learn. I got my start with a guy named Charles Moore, who's a famous Civil Rights photographer. He did the pictures of the German shepherds attacking people in Birmingham, Alabama, and Martin Luther King being arrested. He's just got an incredible body of work about the Civil Rights movement. He's from the same little town as I am in Alabama, and when I was in college there, I knew his pictures, but I didn't know who he was—I didn't know he was from that town. (source)

Karl Loren is willing to take an Apprentice Webmaster to learn the tools and art of being a Webmaster.

Schools in the US are failing their students and the parents by the permissive and harmful so-called educational policies they follow. That is why immigrants have done so much better than born-in-US students. Many foreign educational processes so far outshine those in the US that industry is increasingly turning to "out-sourcing" their employment recruiting and hiring. Click here for an article in the Wall Street Journal about one school, in India, that is recognized for the very high quality of its graduates -- such a school would not be "allowed" in the US -- the Teachers' Union would make sure of that.

DEHRA DUN, India -- At the Doon School, near the foothills of the Himalayas, life is spartan. The 500 boys enrolled here bathe together in communal showers. In winter, they pore over textbooks in rooms with no heat. Cellphones are forbidden and parental visits are kept to a minimum.

For 71 years, Doon has supplied India with business leaders and well-known writers such as Vikram Seth. Even Rajiv Gandhi, the late prime minister, suffered the school's famously bad food. Now Doon is taking its uniformed students in a new direction: up the U.S. corporate ladder.

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Each morning except Sunday, boys rise at 6:15 and down a small snack to fuel them for 20 minutes of military-style exercises. Two classes precede breakfast, with another five crammed in before lunch. Academics are leavened with music, poetry and drama. Every April, the boys vie in a calisthenics contest in which judges award points for clean, pressed clothes as well as team coordination.

On a recent Saturday morning, in a room lit by fluorescent lights, more than a dozen 17-year-olds sat at old wooden tables as fans whirred overhead. The work at hand: CPA-level accounting problems. "Is depreciation on a delivery van part of selling overhead?" asked one student. (Answer: yes.) (source)

Where is that type of education avalable in the US? It is not anywhere I know of except amongst those few Masters who offer apprenticeships.

The student should CLICK HERE to read about Karl Loren, and the person he would be working with, intensively, at Karl's office in Van Nuys.

The schedule is very flexible -- over seven days per week hours from early in the AM to evening hours -- with about 30 hours per week at Karl's office -- minimum.

This person must already be a Kung Fu student of the Yong Moon Moo Kwan, or willing to become a regular student there.

During the Apprenticeship there would be a modest weekly salary, long hours, hard work and time to actually work on THIS web site. Part of the "cost" to the Apprentice, however, is also his willingness to work on other sites created by Karl -- with only a part of his or her time spent on the Kung Fu web sites.

As he was leaving my office the first time we met, Nathan said, "I would swim through lava to work for you." And I thought, that's exactly what I wanted to hear. He wasn't saying, I love you, I love your work. Instead, it was, I'd love to work for you. So he put it in the right context. And when he and Frederic did work for me, the guys worked 16 hours a day and didn't care about themselves, about their own work or personal lives. And that's what I expect. Because that's what I did for Charles Moore in that certain period. (source)

Karl has served as the Apprentice Master for eager students who are even still in High School.

Neither age nor gender is a barrier, but eagerness, fire in the belly, and a love for Kung Fu are necessary ingredients.

The job is open NOW.

CHANGE on Saturday, June 3, 2006: A person has applied and is now in a special training session BEFORE he might be accepted as the apprentice.

Second FLASH: October 23, 2006. He took himself out some time ago. I learned a lot, however, about people who come on strong but are all empty inside.

So, the position is very much open -- will you be the one?

Apprenticeships used to be very common -- have become rare, for some of this reason:

The urban workplace changed dramatically in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The American Revolution, with its rampant egalitarianism, dissolved much of the paternalistic control once wielded by fathers, masters and other authority figures, as the anonymous author “Old Apprentice” made clear in his set of three letters to the New York Observer in 1826. But significant blame for this erosion rested with the manufacturers themselves. Eager to seize upon new markets with expanded production, they divided up tasks to produce cheaper clothing or shoes. Semiskilled and unskilled women and children performed this labor rather than apprentices or other workingmen of the traditional artisanal system. These changes also dissolved the traditional residential patterns, pushing working men out into the housing market. A loss of reciprocity and responsibility occurred on both sides. (Source)

Read more on this site -- then contact Grandmaster Moon about attending one of her classes -- to get acquainted. If she approves you, THEN you still have to impress Karl Loren.

After the Apprenticeship it is expected that you will take a full time position with Young Moon Moo Kwan as the Master Webmaster -- as you continue to progress up to your first Black Belt -- and beyond.

It is not required that the Apprentice be Korean, but that would help with some of the web-language skills needed. Karl speaks and teaches only in English. It is not usual for woman to excel in this field, but Yong Moon Moo Kwan has many young and old woman students.

Karl is also willing to apprentice someone in photography and even business marketing. Fancy school degrees are usually more of a hindrance since the real skills and art are seldom taught by teachers who are not practicing experts.

There is a contractual agreement of working for at least one year after the Apprenticeship is finished with Young Moon Moo Kwan in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles.

The Apprenticeship with Karl will take a year -- more or less, depending on the amount of skill and prior knowledge. The Apprentice must maintain an acceptable schedule with Kung Fu classes, and show acceptable progression in the art.