Ditto.
But I have to add. I have no say as to how someone chooses a career path. Whatever gets you to where you wanna go is fine by me. I think most tattoo artists have very interesting beginnings as to how they got in the trade. But it is a trade/craft, something that has to learned, and practiced, and studied. It isn't a two-week process, and god forbid some knot-on-a-log gets his 99 dollar "tat-gun" off Amazon and starts messing up his friends using skills he learned from the goddamn television.