same time and tattooing on
my free time. Which was like
1 tattoo a week. It’s a hobby.
Until I had a friend who started a business making Filipino
t-shirts. Selling Manny Pacquio tee shirts. Where he quit
his job and said you just have
to step out in faith. You got to
believe that no one else does
it like you, and no one does
it better than you. You got to
believe it. Man, I had 3 jobs. I
didn’t believe fully. I was quitting one job after another until
finally I was like, I’m hanging
on to my last job. I wasn’t going to quit but my wife said,
you know what, if you quit, I’ll support you. I’ll support this family and, we
are going to have to get used to eating top ramen. You’re used to eating top
ramen. So I quit. I cleaned up my garage. Fixed it up. I had a couch set up,
big screen tv and started tattooing.
I felt that way about quitting his job as a software engineer. And that
art has always been my thing.
Ain’t it a trip that more people believe in you then you do yourself. And
you’re like nah, who’s going to have my back. You say do it, but are you going to catch me if I fall?
A friend of mine actually talked me into it. He was a freestyle singer.
Freestyle. Like Stevie B? Yeah, that’s my jam.
His name was JL. He did a song called Alone in the Dark. It was a big
hit freestyle. He quit music and started doing his own thing. He was
doing marketing and advertising. He quit music before computers and
the internet and that stuff. Everybody was saying he was crazy for
quitting music. He was like, music is co