A few days ago, the winner of Japan’s most prestigious literary award, Rie Kudan, generated a stir after acknowledging that about 5% of her novel had been written with ChatGPT, the already famous artificial intelligence tool. The technology It is advancing by leaps and bounds and, although it has many benefits for societies around the world, it changes some realities.
But jobs that resist the changes of times, where the arrival of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGTP is not an incident. Professions and trades that are still standing no matter how many years pass since its inception. And even that they are being revitalized and gaining prestige.
Gonzalo Gaston Gil He is only 32 years old and works daily at Jornal, the most famous bakery and pastry shop in the Saavedra neighborhood, a job that has changed little over the years: hand kneading is once again revered beyond the arrival of machines in the sector. .
Gil studied for several years and took a course with famous Spanish bakers, and also with the Mexican Luis Robledo: he started working at the age of 19 and won first place in the National Artisanal Pastry Championship. “I always had a vocation for pastries, since I was a child and I cooked at home with my cousins for family gatherings and parties. Since I entered high school I already knew that I wanted to study pastry, more or less in the third year I started practicing the recipes I had at home and it became a passion,” he says.
Norberto Schätz He grew up among goldsmiths, and today, together with his son, he is experiencing the revival of Schätz Artesanos. The company manufactures hardware and taps for the upper and upper middle class sector throughout the country and is expanding increasingly to the region and the United States, hand in hand with this trade that adds up the most beautiful works.
“We make everything to measure, architects, interior designers, designers, go into our catalog and see something they like, they see an idea, but then we advise them and they ask us exactly what they want. We always tell them yes, send us the design they want and we will tell them if it is possible or not, but we are not going to sell something standardizedindustrialized,” explains Norberto.
Juan Marcelo Méndez is a watchmaker. He has been working for the global luxury brand, Omega, for 14 years. The watches of this type of brand have transformed over the years not only into a tool for everyday use, but also into pieces of art and collection that represent a lifestyle for their consumers.
Méndez was self-taught, he had no one in his family who inspired this passion for the art and technique of watchmaking. “Being an expert in this type of product is being able to appreciate aesthetic beauty, with precious materials, artistic but also functional works, and the mechanics of applied engineering that manages to measure time thanks to the use of natural physical laws,” explains Méndez. .
And he says that every day in his work is different: “Sometimes it is just a matter of providing everything possible so that a client makes a safe purchase based on their tastes and needs, but on other occasions it is necessary to make interventions on the watches and , on other occasions it is necessary to investigate to find, recognize and identify particular models.”
Daniela Piña She was 7 years old when she started drawing dresses and seeing how the women in her family sewed clothes for adults and children. At that time there was talk of dressmakers, those women who made tailored suits for society ladies and brides and bridesmaids’ dresses for weddings. But in his environment no one had this professional level.
“I come from a very humble family and the entire world of fashion seemed like a princess’s dream to me and perhaps that was what caught me the most. When I was a teenager, I already made my own clothes and those of some friends. From time to time, mom would lose a tablecloth or a curtain, I was the one who stole fabrics to design and sew,” says Dani, today the owner of the Nahia brand, which participates in New York fashion weeks.
At the age of 24 he was already working at his firm, at that time under another name, he lived in the city of Posadas and opened a small store that was his beginning. Then in Central America, where he married and had children, he returned to the country and rebuilt his project. Today it is part of the catwalks of Marbella, New York, Dubai and Montevideo, but also of course, of Buenos Aires and the interior of the country. An “evergreen” sector beyond industrialization in clothing.
by RN
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