TBH Mike, I've been tattooing myself and my partner from home to learn more myself as these days no tattooist will take the time out to teach us anything, unless theres a 5K drop on my behalf? It's not always about who's got balls to do what, If anyone were to come to me and say come and work in my shop (free or not) I would jump in a Heartbeat to do it, I Don't agree in doing it from home and wasting etc, I sterolize my needles then melt em in the fireplace (yeah it may be frowned upon etc) but thats what I do, Surely this guy is just trying to get by, Why make jokes about his job seekers to him? Everyone starts the same way, I bet when you first got your apprenticeship you would scratch at home on the weekend with your mates? exactly.... we're all here because we love tattooing, not because we wanna stick people with needles n pray to god our skills are good enough and we dont kill em...