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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:18 am Post subject: apprenticeship question |
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when considering a an apprentice is it standard procedure to do a legal background check on the applicant?
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| No. Never met a tattooer who didn't have a questionable background. |
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Funny, real, but funny... |
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If it were ME, I would. That said, if all of your issues were in the past, it wouldn't be as big a deal as if, say, you got busted with a bag of coke and a bottle of pain meds last year or something.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| Fred, you can probably scrub tubes twice as fast jumped up on blow... Mine as well capitalize on your free help.. |
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True, but someone with drug problems will be less likely to NOT rob me blind in the process of scrubbing said tubes, lol
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I was playin... I would investigate too if I were the shop owner. I wouldnt necessarily disqualify someone because they had a record if they were honest about it. I also would assume I would have built some relationship with someone who I'm going to apprentice, rather than just somebody that walks in the door asking for one... Probably not always the case...
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Ideally, an apprentice would be someone the mentor has known for a year or two first. Making a background check unnecessary. I know times are changing, though. |
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I still don't getv the idea of NEEDING an apprentice either, Yorvo, but that's just me
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| Yeah Freddy, I think they happen when they should happen. I knew my mentor for three years before he took me on. He was working alone and knew he wanted to expand his shop in a couple years. Now he's got a two man shop with someone he knows and trusts. |
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I'm in the exact situation. Only diffeence is that I knew my boss for about 6 years before I scored my apprenticeship. Personally, as I've said before, when the time comes and my grey beard is down around my knees, I'll teach ONE kid the craft, that's it. I know guys that churn out an apprentice a year and it's really pretty sad IMO
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| Do red beards ever turn grey?? I thought your were ginger til death.. Blood in - Blood Out.... Ginger Pride.. |
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They do, but obviously only on the outside....when one's a ginger, they're a ginger FOR LIFE!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Unless you have a brown beard. The whiskers turn red, then gray. |
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My fiance is half filipino; he has dark skin, jet black hair, and dark eyes. Yet in his facial hair he has some light red hairs that he gets from his father.
For some reason it cracks me up.
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