Galery

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Ever since I became a mother, my son comes first. Now neither I nor my work, have priority. I get up around 7 in the morning and I get ready. Then we drink our milk and we play. Between 9:30AM and 10:00AM Carlos gets sleepy and I put him down for a nap. Then the second shift comes – the grandpa and takes over, and I am off to the studio. Around 4-5 in the afternoon his dad comes homes and the grandpa is free to do. I get home around 6:30PM, sometimes exactly at 7:00PM for his milk and at 9:00PM he is going off to bed again. I try to avoid working on the weekends. Sometimes I might need to work on Saturdays if the customer has no other available time, but not on Sundays. 

I do whatever I can to have time for my clients, but I do not always succeed. Compared with the period before I gave birth, now I make less appointments, but spend enough time on every model, so that my work is good. 

When I returned to work after giving birth, I needed a little time. I was getting tired faster and my hand was starting to hurt from holding the machine, until I got back in my old form. Tendinitis is the disease of tattoo artists and everything comes from how heavy the machine is and the long working hours. During the summer work is particularly busy, but now there is a new type of machines, which are much lighter than the ones up to now and they do not hurt the hand so much. 

My meeting with Vaso reassured me of something I already know - you do not need to work in an office to have a good career. You don’t have to give up the child in you in order to be a good parent; you don’t have to give up your dreams, because they do not seem real for other people. For me, Vaso is an example that anything finds its natural course, if you believe in yourself and work hard to reach it.