The placing of orders also varies from person to person
On a day-to-day basis, much of my job involves the creation of vessels. Likewise, I should also mention that often I am fortunate enough to be commissioned by restaurants to create custom pieces.
In the second scenario, my job is quite easy and straightforward if there is something on hand that can be used as a sample that may be replicated. By comparison, however, if what I am commissioned to create is something entirely new, then my work processes might include dictates as to the dimensions of a piece that are to be measured in millimeters. Likewise, with some commissioned pieces, there are customers that will supply me with a set of rather detailed instructions. Concerning such a scenario, it very much comes with the territory as being part-and-parcel of the work of a professional potter. Following on, to talk about some of the custom pieces that I am commissioned to make, certain clients only tell me about the purpose for which what I make will subsequently be used. To wit, beyond that I am given total creative control over issues such as color and shape. Additionally, there are even customers whose interactions with me consist only of telling me how many units of a particular piece they will need.
Regarding such a sense of freedom, on occasion it does impose on me quite a lot of pressure. Then again, I tend to transform such into a source of motivation to do my job.
