In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you. ↗
Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets. ↗