NO TATTOO ROLL CALL

Christine it probably would not be the kind of job where you go from having no money to having a paycheck in a very short time. You start out doing an apprenticeship with a good tattoo artist. An apprenticeship is usually not free, you have to pay the tattoo artist (and why shouldn't you? you're getting a lot of professional help). Even if it is free that's weeks/months where you're not making money. And once you have those skills under your belt, it's still not a steady job, and there are many costs associated with doing it. Like starting any skilled job, it takes some initial investment if you want to do it. Not to be SUPER DISCOURAGING but oops lol I just was.

I think to make it a full-time career you really have to be passionate about tattoos & tattoo culture & you have to hustle pretty hard. My friend & former manager at Kinko's started his own shop w/his wife after quitting Kinko's and I think it was 3-4 years before he was in the black with it. They are both talented artists and also workaholics and I really think the latter is the key to their success. He was happy in the years the shop wasn't profitable because he was doing what he truly loved, but he was also working as a waiter in his spare time and putting in 80-90 hours of work a week between his two jobs. And still putting in 60-70 as just an artist now. I don't know if this is the most typical story but it does take a ton of effort, I think, to get anywhere useful with that career. And I think you have to really love tattoos.

Whenever I see people with leeves and other very visible tattoos who otherwise look like they are productive members of mainstream society, I want to ask them what they do for work. Of course visible tattoos are no problem in jobs like tattoo artist, head shop proprietor, hairdresser, or maybe some artists, but are all those inked people in jobs like that?

I guess also: chef/cook, bartender in certain places.

But the ones who commute during 9-5er rush hours?

Eric H., do you anticipate your sleeve be an issue in work down the road?

Don't forget graphic designers!

Really anything but Sales and the finance-y stuffy jobs, p much. You keep 'em covered for the interview, and after that it's no one's business except yours, unless you're going somewhere to represent the company or etc.

Nope, Jesse. No one really cares what the behind-the-scenes TV employees look like, and if I find out they do, well, I'll just switch to long sleeves.

I actually am a graphic designer, but at a university library. Ive worked in IT as well. My brother-in-law is very heavily tattooed and is a philosophy professor (and a DJ, I guess). The other people I know with visible tattoos are both fine arts professors. I really don't know that many people with visible ink.

The most heavily tattooed person I know is in a PhD program for neuroscience or some insanely smart shit, doesn't seem to have had any effect there either.

That's my fallback plan. To get a PhD.

i know two recently-minted docs (one ER, one pathology) that have full sleeves on both arms, and have heavily tattooed legs as well

So I think we can safely say that visibly tattooed people do mostly all the same jobs that non-visibly tattooed people do, except maybe, like, teach at a Baptist pre-school. I think the okay-ness is probably limited to arms, though, in terms of what you'd see in public? I can't imagine face or neck work being quite as acceptable.

Pretty sure full sleeves + neck + scalp = consigned to work at Pizza Luce, but I could be wrong.

I'm putting my resistance to the forearm tattoo idea I've had for a long time at +/- 2 more months, will upload a pic if I do it

that was always an issue for me earlier - what if i end up in a job where tattoos aren't acceptable? but i'm almost 32, i think it's pretty clear that if i haven't worked in that kind of environment so far, i probably never will. and like joygoat, i would never get hands/face/neck tattooed.

hey christine, if your husband is artistic there are a bunch of other ways he could utilise those skills that would be a lot cheaper/easier to implement: little original drawings, cards, that kind of stuff, is HUGE on etsy.com - you could start a store and try selling his stuff? not much overhead involved.

I'm 37 and can't imagine ever ending up working somewhere that would care about tattoos. Even if I did I can always roll my sleeves down.

Also, based on the general dress aptitude of university libraries and engineering school IT departments - where I often feel dressed up by wearing a clean button down shirt and long pants - I can't imagine that tattoos detract from the general dress code.

Pretty sure full sleeves + neck + scalp = consigned to work at Pizza Luce, but I could be wrong.

― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

+ hard times + t-rock

Would work at all those places, tbh.

After spending a lot of time in Portland the food service professionals in Minneapolis seemed pretty under-tattooed by comparison but breakfast at the triple rock more than made up for it.

i kindof really want to get this on my right calf

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/4030801293_e6c84ab2f3.jpg

it would have to be done like really well though, its not the kind of thing you can get away w/ half assed.

If I were to get a madonna:

http://www.hitomimatarese.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jean-Fouquet-Madonna-and-child1.jpg

With the red green angel background running Escher style around the limb.

Er,
http://www.hitomimatarese.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jean-Fouquet-Madonna-and-child1.jpg

and red blue cherub tiles.

i like how he's pointing at his ma
<-- hey look over there

Debating Milo Goes To College cover w/ no text vs. I Don't Want To Grow Up w/ the words top and bottom. The former was a much more important album to me, the latter a better design...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SMESX4F53BI/AAAAAAAALbs/IvhqWOFmprA/s400/descendents

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Descendents_-_I_Don

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6455531803_f519bba588_z.jpg
Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

that was a quick decision.

I don't think it even matters anymore. Tattoos are now mainstream and prob the majority under say 30-35

Although ¡maracas!.jpg might be an exception

Awwwww

http://www.okgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ashton_KUTCHER_TATTOO.jpg