I’ve been seeing a ton of tattoo artists complain about work life balance. Its so wierd to see it all over social media.
In fact I think thats exactly why tattoo artists are feeling overwhelmed. Social Media… dun dun dun…
Gone are the days of sitting in a tattoo shop waiting for walkins 6 days a week and letting word of mouth do all the work.
Nowadays artists are required to be posting on tik tok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Reddit, etc etc and on and on… Lets not forget you have to draw your tattoos, then tattoo them.
Oh wait, do you have a family and hobbies? Well, crap when are you gonna have time for them if you’re busy posting and scheduling and doing consultations in the DMs… its so much… wait, did you make your needle order? Did you want to paint today?
Theres just too much going on.
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