One way to hold this word: picture the worker in the middle of the shop. The apprentice by the door is still being watched; the master owns the place and signs for it. Between them stands someone who has finished learning, can be left alone with the job, and still goes home on someone else's . Everything the word does — the licence, the judgement about the level of the work, the player on his seventh team — comes off that middle position.
From the word’s history
Built from journey plus man, where journey goes back to Old French jornee, a day or a day's work — so the word first pointed at a worker hired and paid by the day.
資料上寫，這個字是 journey 加 man，而這裡的 journey 來自古法語 jornee，意思是「一天」或「一天的工作」。所以它一開始指的是按日計酬的工人。這條線索正好解釋了那個中間位置：有本事做事，但工作是別人給的、日子是一天一天算的。
Wiktionary etymology for journeyman (packet evidence): From Middle English jorneman; from journe (Old French jornee, a day's work, a journey) and mon; equivalent to journey + -man.
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