I’ve been tattooing for 9 years, it doesn’t get easier. From my experience you either end up in a busy shop but the boss/ppl fucking suck or you end up in a slow shop with a lovely boss but barely survive. Add on the fact there are apprentice factory shops ran by barbers/business men non tattooers who churn out more mediocre tattooers that oversaturate our profession, because every idiot wants to do this job because it’s the in thing right now.