I’ve worked hard to become a tattooer, because I have always loved to draw and been decent at it. After 3 years of apprenticing, I am finally able to tattoo. I love what I do but everyone seems to expect me to do it 7 days a week. I’ve settled for 6 and I’m still working on reducing it to 5, but even where I’m at now I feel like my colleges make comments about how I should be here “all the time”. A few days ago a coworker asked me if I was going to be open the tattoo I was about to start on. It was 7pm We close at 8pm, and so I said “I’m not sure it depends how long it takes me” . His response was “ well I’m going to be taking walkins till 1am”.
There’s been other times too, that’s just the most recent. I’m glad to do this but I wish that I wasn’t being judged so badly for wanting a life out side of it too. Which I kind of don’t even have right now… my one day off A week is for errands and cleaning at home.