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    Default well, i quit the tattoo shop... back to dancing.

    i guess it just wasnt for me. plus since its a vacation area the shop is open 12-15 hours a day. and the artists and apprentices are expected to work 12 hour shifts . i just cannot handle it. that and i dont feel i am learning anything except for how to clean things and run a register. so due to much thinking im going back to dancing here and living here till fall golf season is over (second week of november) working my ass off since i am used to the long shifts now anyway. im going to save up money and skip town. sell all my stuff, becuase im not hauling shit around the country again. and my stuff isnt worth paying a grand for.

    i guess i kind of feel embarressed like i couldnt handle it but most shops do not operate like that, its just not for me.

    since my bf is the manager there hes pretty pissed about my choice. but all the talk of us spending too much time together and getting into fights at the shop, it wasnt working out for that reason either. so in the next couple months if things dont get better between us then i will move if not then ill just move in with him and keep dancing or get a regular job. but for now this is whats up


    i have to admit i did sort of miss being a goddess....at least i can go back to something i know i am good at and have some self esteem back.

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    Default Re: well, i quit the tattoo shop... back to dancing.

    Dear Pretty Tattooed Girl in Myrtle Beach:

    Hi. We haven't much connected on SW before, but I've been reading all your threads and thinking about what you're going through, and I want to say that I *think* I know how you feel. You seem like a keenly intelligent, sensitive, and introspective person, someone to whom emotional contentment is paramount. I know how it feels to be unhappy in a non-specified manner, and how that unhappiness manifests as despair, restlessness, and a peculiar sort of nostalgia. I am glad to see that you are being honest with yourself about your relationship and not making excuses, and that you express the fortitude to make some changes. For some people (like myself) the geographical cure-- hell, even the nihilistic cure (i.e. selling your stuff and just up and leaving)-- is really what works. So I hope that your decision-- to quit the tattoo shop, to return to dancing, to break up with your BF, to move across the country, whatever it winds up being-- brings you satisfaction and peace of mind.

    PM me if you ever want to talk.

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    Default Re: well, i quit the tattoo shop... back to dancing.

    thanks darling. truely.

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    Default Re: well, i quit the tattoo shop... back to dancing.

    I'm sorry to read this - I know you were all excited about apprenticing.

    Just a quick FYI though - not ALL shops/artists teach the way yours did. I managed to find a REALLY awesome teacher who let me come and go on my own time and rarely ever made me clean anything except tubes and the usual sterilization/floor mopping stuff. He was respectful and patient. I wish all artists were like him. So there is hope if you don't want to give up on your dream.

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    Default Re: well, i quit the tattoo shop... back to dancing.

    i wish i could find a girl to apprentice under....

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    Default Re: well, i quit the tattoo shop... back to dancing.

    Quote Originally Posted by teeth_of_the_hydra View Post
    Dear Pretty Tattooed Girl in Myrtle Beach:

    Hi. We haven't much connected on SW before, but I've been reading all your threads and thinking about what you're going through, and I want to say that I *think* I know how you feel. You seem like a keenly intelligent, sensitive, and introspective person, someone to whom emotional contentment is paramount. I know how it feels to be unhappy in a non-specified manner, and how that unhappiness manifests as despair, restlessness, and a peculiar sort of nostalgia. I am glad to see that you are being honest with yourself about your relationship and not making excuses, and that you express the fortitude to make some changes. For some people (like myself) the geographical cure-- hell, even the nihilistic cure (i.e. selling your stuff and just up and leaving)-- is really what works. So I hope that your decision-- to quit the tattoo shop, to return to dancing, to break up with your BF, to move across the country, whatever it winds up being-- brings you satisfaction and peace of mind.

    PM me if you ever want to talk.
    I am right there with yall!!

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    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

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    Default Re: well, i quit the tattoo shop... back to dancing.

    I totally understand how you feel. I went through a very similar scenario. When I was about 18 going on 19 I found one of the best shops in town and got an apprenticeship to pierce. After about two years of donig nothing but selling jewelry, autoclaving equipment and cleaning the shop I had to quit.

    My boss wasn't teaching me anything! I hadn't even been allowed to watch a procedure. It was bullshit and my exicitement quickly faded into disillusionment. Since he wasn't paying me I couldn't afford rent, food, gas etc along with tuition(since I worked 7 days a week and had full time school.

    I was committed to learning but enough was enough. I finally realized I was just cute, free labor and moved on to start dancing. It was sad to let go of something that I really wanted to do but life is too short to broke and unhappy.
    I totally feel for you on having to leave. Don't feel embarrassed about leaving at all.

    If you were working that hard and not being repaid with a sufficient and worthwhile education then it was the shop and your boss that let you down(not to mention used you)...not the other way around.

    Who knows maybe a good break, moving away, clearing your head and so on will be good and you can find a way to pursue your dream in a healthier and more beneficial arrangement.

    Good luck honey and serious congrats on making the move to be happier...it's so much harder than it sounds.

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