Seems like more than a nitpick; the whole premise of the article is that journeymen weren't paid, other than room and board, and you're saying they were, in fact, paid a daily rate after all.
I think the premise of the article is that jacquesm wants to do the thing he said he wants to do. The journeyman thing is just a nice way to set the story up.
Yep. There are a lot of ingredients that went into this, conversations with friends, reading up on the history of guilds / tradecraft. I realized there is no way I could actually revive the journeyman concept, especially not given the obligations that I already have and we don't have a guild to start with nor any of the traditions that come with it.
But it served as a nice starting point and ingredient in the soup. Lots of offers (and interesting ones too, nicely fitting with the spirit of the request) already.
I'm fairly sure that, traditionally, the guilds would have set the rates - if you tried working for nothing they wouldn't have been very happy with you at all.
