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Tattooist of ~10 years experience specializing in dealing with cumbersome clients, questionable tattoo choices, and ink stains.

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My tattoos today in a nutshell.

From the original image I don’t know if the lady skeleton was supposed to be a “lady skeleton” or a live woman with day of the dead makeup ahaaa

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Last Day Last Shift

Only a day left before the end of September... That is merely one last shift, one day away from me being 100% done with this tattoo workplace I started my apprenticeship at 10 years ago. 

Starting October I am moving out to another tattoo shop that is quite promising. I am glad I took the opportunity after pondering changing places for so long. 

In ways I shouldn’t think about how grass is going to be greener. Just maybe that.... grass is gonna be green. 

I’m looking forward to better more hands-on management. New coworkers will mean new team work. Everyone cleaning together after work? WOW! 

Pay is already better with potential raise and the store provides the sterilization and cleaning supplies. I also can’t wait to not have to deal with gross people of the area that sickened me over time. Doing tiniest mundane infinity symbols and bird silhouettes.

I’ll be allowed to switch out and go to anime conventions no problem as well. New boss said she wants me to work within rules n regulations, but wants me to be happy and not miserable. GOSH did that get to me!  

The new management also told me they love my stuff and really look forward to having my style be a different addition to their roster. They will make sure I get the projects and work I deserve. Honestly it scares me but I trust them with their many years of being high runners in the tattoo industry. 

These last few weeks were the longest ever, every working shift was full especially with news of my departure. I can’t wait to finish tomorrow and have a proper amount of drinks after work with my coworkers.

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Oh like anyone else

“I’d like to have a fox tattoo, half geometric half watercolour.”

“My infinity symbol will have very personal lettering inside and a 3 tiny birds”

“I want to commemorate this person with a something meaningful so I’d like their date of birth in roman numerals.”

“I want an ekg heart line with the heartbeat making a heart shape.”

“Could I get 3 lines, all around my arm like an armband, all of different thickness.”

“I did research because I want the perfect tattoo, here I picked all these off googl and pinterest.”

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Death. I ask for it. The client has a folder of +10 sheets to illustrate that they want this. On top of being difficult with their "ideas".

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"Artists shouldn't like money they should like their jobs"

Imagine for a second I say this to retail workers ahahaha the mess I'd be in.

I'm not going to be able to feed myself just by sheer love of my craft!

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Hopefully! This'll be the last time I have lunch in a crummy trashbag-filled storage basement.

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Hopefully these are the last rosary bead-bird silhouette-compass-rose combo I will ever ever do in this life. 

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this post just called me smol bean

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OH PTN SOB WOW

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Nice things I’ve been told lately in light of news of my departure:

“Where are you going? I hope you are well there”

“If you’re going, I’m leaving too.”

“Good luck in future projects”

“Le magasin n’aura plus d’allure maintenant.”

“I hope you go somewhere where you get paid at least $200 an hour doing what you love!!”

“I hope we keep contact.”

For some reason, I thought I was but a thought. Very disposable. In reality I AM disposable. I guess just not as irreplaceable. 

Thank you for these 10 important years of my life and carreer, for my forming and growth. I am ready to move on.

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Today weighs

My apprentice is on a vacation for a week and a half after already having already left for a month this spring. She doesn't want to work at this place, yet says she only wants to answer to me and follow me. I told her to think things through while away. While apprentice is away I not only have to look out for a new junior recruit but I also have to babysit yet another new apprentice on top of my coworker's apprentice. Irony of timing!! Other long time lingering woes are weighing my mood down and I can't concentrate as well. I feel let down, but rather guilty and ungrateful as well. I deserve it. My earlier client fell deep asleep as I was tattooing him. I felt envious.

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I have long sessions up ahead of me as well as more incoming on the rest of the week. It's either going to help me get my mind off a lot of heavy things or I lack concentration and willpower to go through it. I don't want to be at work right now.

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My boss: You haven’t been to work on time when is the last time you came to work on time?

Me: I have never been late either. 

My boss: ugly laugh

A little backstory is that the store used to open from 12 to 9. I would always arrive 15min before opening hours and had issues with “higher ups” about leaving before closing hours. During summer time my boss would decide to stay open until as late as midnight.  Long story short is that we work long hours at the shop. When my boss wanted to open earlier at 11:00 I was already turning out to be an oldie at the shop and decided to put my foot down about coming in at 12 anyway. 

Fast forwarding to today I come in at more or less 12PM and stay until closing hours, again more or less. 

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OK I’m feeling petty and I’m making fun of but just trying to group this up makes my head SPIN anyways COOL PROJECTS!! Special super points to the “TATTITUDE” tag there, WAOUH!!!!

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Chews out my apprentice at work, chews out my apprentice on my day off.

Is it me or is she looking for a fight? Because she’s about to find it.

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"Ah excuse me I really rather you not change the ugly original design I wanted because I truly wanted to honour my initial idea but still I trust your design sense" Wh.. (back to the drawing table)

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--Tell me. So I can eliminate him.

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My today's junior coworker is (still) not here it's 1:30PM because she's at the passport office making her passport. Right. She doesn't need to work at all. Que je la vois se plaindre qu'elle a pas d'argent.