𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔭 #2

 piercing shop #2 

hello & welcome to another post.

(WILL BE A LONG ONE FYI) (RANT) 

today i want to talk about the second piercing shop i spent time at for free. 

The first tattoo/piercing shop i went to after i was fired from piercing job #1 offered me a job. well,,, kinda. 

this shop that i was interested in seemed to enjoy the idea of having a piercer again when i came in and for days following. i went to a lot of other shops, almost every reputable piercing shop in my town. The first place I gave my resume and portfolio was the only one interested and i needed to start piercing asap so i took it. 

my headshots for new business cards

The dude running it said he has not had a piercer in shop since a little after COVID-19 had started. He did not get into much detail just that the last piercer had lost trust in him and he was let go. That was all and he told me that right away. The whole time i was there, i was there to build his trust. I sanitized instruments for him and cleaned them all. i sorted all the jewelry into the right places as everything was thrown all together. i did so much for that piercing room until... 

until... he said he did not even want to really be there when i was in the shop. even though i had made it clear i was looking for an apprenticeship and needed a mentor to help me with the piercings i did not know how to do. So i was confused that he said that. i was gonna have a talk with him but i ended up missing a shift and did not text him until the following monday, and he was upset which is valid. I did go to the shop but it was later and he was not there so i did try. anyways he texted me saying he needed to think about things and i said thats good cause i need to think if i need to commit, this was after all the free work i did for him. he then texted me that he was going out of state for a week and would get back in touch and guess what? he never got back in touch. it is currently a week (maybe two) since he was supposed to text. i was going to text him but i really thought about it and he gave signs of not really wanting to pay me and he had a hard time trusting me but i could not work with him not there and he left early every day so i could not work that long. (at the time i was doing instacart to afford bills and he was not paying me so i left early to do that most days since that made me money). 

me sorting jewelry 

i really miss piercing. i did do two piercings while i was there. it was on my partner and they went really smoothly. i accomplished a lot while i was there, it just was not worth it. 

what do y'all think of this? i have found a job i enjoy but it is not in the piercing field. I do hope some day to go back and be fully involved again. that is my dream but until then i will have random jobs that i enjoy. 

sorry for the rant. have not talked to many people about it lol. 

- rain