Right.... have you ever spent 5 hours focusing intently on keeping your hand steady, pulling clean, perfect lines, on an extremely intricate design with absolutely no room for error and no ability to erase with the added stress that IF YOU DO happen to err, even just once, that the person you're doing this to now how to live with it for the rest of their life?! That's a bit of a headache inducer... Add into this the physical challenges of having to spend most of your day hunched over another human being, killing your back. Then there's also the fact that you're not just tracing and coloring like people think you are, you are spending hours and hours of your off time coming up with original artwork that isn't from your own imagination but instead your interpretation of someone else's description of THEIR imagination and you've got to satisfy their wants not just your own whim. Then take into account the fact that you're doing this for dozens of people a week while also working in the dozens of small, unimaginative walk in tattoos that are ever so popular and fill the Pinterest boards of what seems like everyone under the damn sun.

But yeah, you're right, it is essentially just coloring on people, sure...

Now don't get me wrong, I used to be a logger, THATS A HARD JOB, but hard in a different way. Tattooing may not be the usual definition of hard but god damnit it's not the "easy" thing people want to act like it is. You can't say it's easy without having done it yourself.