Re:At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being ...
by JohnFen on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:58PM
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> In a lifetime? Potentially enough yes to not opt for such.
Maybe? I'm an older guy and know a lot of people my age with tattoos. Very few of them regret their art, even when their art isn't as meaningful as it once was. It still serves as a totem of a certain time in their life.
But it's also true that lots of people regret tattoos. I do think that people younger than 30 or so should avoid them.
A friend of mine is a tattoo artist, and he has a lot of advice for how to avoid regretting one later, because his specialty is doing cover-up tattoos for people who later regret one they got. The most common reason for regretting a tattoo is that the tattoo they got was done or was placed very poorly and didn't get any better with age.
> Alice thinks Bob is the one, and Alice gets a Bob tattoo
This is touches on a piece of advice he has: never get a name tattooed on you. Not your lover, not your spouse, not your parents, not even your children (he has a couple of stories where children have died young and the tattoo their parent had became a constant reminder of grief).
He considered this so important that he would personally refuse to do such tattoos at all.
So it all depends. People who take seriously the fact that tattoos are forever tend to be fine with the ones they do get, even over a lifetime.
Maybe? I'm an older guy and know a lot of people my age with tattoos. Very few of them regret their art, even when their art isn't as meaningful as it once was. It still serves as a totem of a certain time in their life.
But it's also true that lots of people regret tattoos. I do think that people younger than 30 or so should avoid them.
A friend of mine is a tattoo artist, and he has a lot of advice for how to avoid regretting one later, because his specialty is doing cover-up tattoos for people who later regret one they got. The most common reason for regretting a tattoo is that the tattoo they got was done or was placed very poorly and didn't get any better with age.
> Alice thinks Bob is the one, and Alice gets a Bob tattoo
This is touches on a piece of advice he has: never get a name tattooed on you. Not your lover, not your spouse, not your parents, not even your children (he has a couple of stories where children have died young and the tattoo their parent had became a constant reminder of grief).
He considered this so important that he would personally refuse to do such tattoos at all.
So it all depends. People who take seriously the fact that tattoos are forever tend to be fine with the ones they do get, even over a lifetime.