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A comment on Ask HN: Manual skills that pay well and can be self taught?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Manual skills that pay well and can be self taught? by tubularhells on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:46AM (#25569656)
Yeah but that's a fine art skill, not something technical.
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Re:Ask HN: Manual skills that pay well and can be self taught? by meiraleal on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @02:26PM (#25573717)
And?

> manual skills can one learn that pay well, and can be self-taught?

This was the question. How does tattooing do not fit it?

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Re:Ask HN: Manual skills that pay well and can be self taught? by chevill on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:50AM (#25578983)
It meets the literal definition but presumably OP doesn't want to spend several years before they are capable of producing professional quality work.

If you can't already draw, its going to take years before you produce anything that a reasonable person would want to have as a tattoo.

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