Macedonians and schools thereof

I have recently made a new acquaintance, his name is Steve and he's a tailor.
"Hi, i'm interested in learning custom tailoring..."
Steve in the midst of checking a suit on the manikin looks up, "Okay, you know how to do the sleeve? this is in the wrong spot I have to move it a 1/4" like so... Come on! you can watch."
2 hours later I left for dinner.
some of his favourite quotes: "it's not easy..." "do another job, it's not easy!"
so he's going to teach me how to do bespoke men's suits. he took 3 years to learn, but I don't think he realizes that I have a perfectly functioning ground work. I observed yesterday as he finished he sleeves and closed the lining of a suit, and if I only observe the beginning of the process once I'm confident I could do it myself. Not to the same degree of perfection, but successfully.
He hand bastes EVERYTHING first and hand stitches a lot. He said the jacket he was working on took 16 hours. slightly excessive, but SOOO much fun. he wouldn't let me finish hand stitching the lining, but maybe today I can do something. The hand stitching is definitely where the precision of fit and hang come in. But I really don't understand the difficulty, unless he meant "it's not easy [to make money]". But that is much less important than enjoyment. It seems like a very economical career if one doesn't own a shop, but takes commission work or works from home.

As you can see I have it all figured out. Looks like my teacher to class isn't coming so I think I'll head off to hang out with Steve.