and I had realized that after I had gotten to know a few of the tattoo artists, it
clicked clicked for me- this is what I should be doing. I was in college at the
time, I was going to college for 3 years. I dropped out to pursue my tattoo
apprenticeship. Yeah, it wasn’t anything that I planned. I thought for years
and years that I would be a Spanish teacher. That was my major in college. I
love foreign languages but I also love art, too, and I didn’t think I could make
any money doing anything with art, so it was just good luck and good timing.
It kind of happened organically after I was at the tattoo shop and it clicked
that’s what I needed to do. I begged for a job, begged and begged. Finally, I
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