Left my apprenticeship
I left my apprenticeship and trust me I tried like hell to hang in there. It wasn’t about the tattooing itself, it was about the environment and my mentor is going through some mid life crisis and stopped teaching me on top of it all. But now I am wondering, how did any of you get into a shop without an apprenticeship? Or do you just have people come to your house that you know? I have a spare room that’s empty that I’m considering using for tattooing, but I also don’t like the idea of strangers having my address.
It’s so vulnerable to write this, please no judgement if possible. I know a lot of you have put up with emotionally abusive apprenticeships and understand.
Also I can tattoo and quite well, but I’m slow and there’s still some gaps in my knowledge I need filled in. But my mentor had me fully unsupervised doing free full color tattoos on clients and they have all healed very well.