Mark Margolis

I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.' Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.

American Actor

Annette Bening

It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.

American Actress

Ian Ziering

In this business, it's important: if you consider yourself a journeyman actor like I do, you need to stay topical. So I'm always looking for projects that are challenging, that put me in a light that's different from anything I've ever done before.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

American Writer

Lance Archer

I've been kind of a journeyman. My five-year stint at TNA. My short cup of coffee in WWE. The last eight-and-a-half years in Japan. I wanted to prove to the world that I absolutely belong as a singles competiton.

American Wrestler

Jermell Charlo

Trout is no journeyman. He's a former world champion, someone who has a name and he comes to fight.

American Boxer

Jonathan Majors

That's the beauty of being an actor. You're kind of a journeyman.

Matt Barnes

I'm a role player, a journeyman. I know who I am.

American Athlete

Adam Vinatieri

Alexander Gustafsson

Swedish Mixed Martial Artist

Refers to a worker skilled enough but not excelling as an expert.

Reliable Skilled

A journeyman has experience but is not a master or newbie.

Not a Master

Neutral, neither praise nor criticism, just a skill level indicator.

Neutral Term

Used for sports professionals who often change teams, not rookies or stars.

Sports Professional

Highlights the aspect of moving often within the profession.

Frequent Moves

Implies a lack of long-term association with one team or club.

Non-Permanent

Skilled after apprenticeship, but not running their own business.

Qualified But Employed

Signifies an intermediate level between apprentice and master.

Mid-Level Skill

More common in historical or traditional contexts and professions.

Older Usage

 The master, following a strict set of guild statutes, insured that apprentices and journeymen worked their way up the ranks over many years of practice and well-defined stages of accomplishment, passing established traditions to the next generation. Patrons regarded these makers

Is there a difference...

 saying, make toilet-setting behind the art department, and that was my end. So this gave me the possibility because now I was a journeyman, and journeymen also take their satchel and go to see the world.

Journeyman