 Journeyman, a journeyman is a skilled worker who has successfully completed an official apprenticeship qualification in a building trade or craft. Journeyman are considered competent and authorized to work in that field as a fully qualified employee. They earned their life since by education, supervised experience and examination. Although journeymen have completed the trade certificate and are allowed to work as employees, they may not yet work as self-employed master craftsmen. The term was originally used in the medieval trade guilds. Journeymen were paid each day. The word journey is derived from journey, meaning day in French. Each individual guild generally recognized three ranks of workers, apprentices, journeymen and masters. A journeyman, as a qualified tradesman could become a master and run their own business, but most continued working as employees. Guidelines were put in place to promote responsible tradesmen, who were held accountable for their own work and to protect the individual trade and the general public from unskilled workers. To become a master, a journeyman has to submit a master piece of work to a guild for evaluation. Only after evaluation can a journeyman be admitted to the guild as a master. Sometimes, a journeyman was required to accomplish a three-year working trip, which may be called the journeyman years.