Hank

That's epic!
The furthest I've traveled was just a hour by plane to Portland. Took a long weekend to hang in the city and got some daggers on my shoulders at scape-goat

It looks like I'm little late to this post and hopefully your brother hasn't got some jacked up work.
I live in Las Vegas (born & raised) The shops mention above are all rad I.e. Classic Tattoo, Battle Born, Downtown Tattoo.
I would personally recommend Downtown Tattoo (the others are rad too!) I like the vibe and got work from a handful of the dudes there.
Also, some other shops to check out would be ; Studio 21 (Jason Paxman is doing my back piece) Showroom Tattoo (Bundy and his crew are sweet) plus Chad Koeplinger will be guest spotting their next week (5/24-5/28) an I'm currently broke as hell!
Hope this helps.

Just curious, Hank, but I've never heard of a guy wearing a "tube-top"...how does that work.
As an empoyer, if one of my employees wanted our insurance to pay for a sex-change operation, they'd be down the road. I couldn't care less what a persons sexual proclivities are, but I wouldn't participate in financing them.
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That's great to hear. I will say as an employer, I draw the line at tube-tops. No-one looks good in a tube-top.

From the ages of 23-28 I was doing reservations for shows an all the fancy restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip. The money was good, which allowed me to a ton of traveling and get tattooed.
When I first started the dress code was dress shirt/tie/slacks. They relaxed it down to casual (t-shirts/jeans) and actually saw productivity and moral shoot up, but ya still had to keep your tattoos covered. I didn't mind 'cause I'm a private person and didn't really wanna "show off to my co-workers", (It sucked during the summer, wearing long sleeves, the Vegas summer is hell!) but I had co-workers who would rally against the machine and engage our over-lords about revamping the dress code to allow exposed tattoos, it worked!
An I believe productivity/moral even increased a little more. I was stoked, no more long sleeves during the summer!
Plus, I got to see some of my co-workers tattoos. One dude had both arms sleeved with crop-circles, an each crop circle designed had a specific meaning. I wouldn't say the tattoos were good. but they were hilariously awesome!!!!
I ended up leaving that place cause dealing with shitty tourists all day is lame.
Luckily, I landed at a job that is pretty hip, progressive and forward thinking. (A co-worker friend is transgendered, female to male, an the insurance provided by work is covering his re-assignment surgeries!!)
I can show up in a cowboy hat, tube top, pajama pants and flip flops and get a hi-five from my boss. with that kinda feeling in the work environment, everyone is positive and work gets done and it's a win/win situation.
I just hope in the future more employers will understand : the happier the employee they better they will work
and sometimes being happy at work is just wearing a t-shirt vs. shirt & tie!

From the ages of 23-28 I was doing reservations for shows an all the fancy restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip. The money was good, which allowed me to a ton of traveling and get tattooed.
When I first started the dress code was dress shirt/tie/slacks. They relaxed it down to casual (t-shirts/jeans) and actually saw productivity and moral shoot up, but ya still had to keep your tattoos covered. I didn't mind 'cause I'm a private person and didn't really wanna "show off to my co-workers", (It sucked during the summer, wearing long sleeves, the Vegas summer is hell!) but I had co-workers who would rally against the machine and engage our over-lords about revamping the dress code to allow exposed tattoos, it worked!
An I believe productivity/moral even increased a little more. I was stoked, no more long sleeves during the summer!
Plus, I got to see some of my co-workers tattoos. One dude had both arms sleeved with crop-circles, an each crop circle designed had a specific meaning. I wouldn't say the tattoos were good. but they were hilariously awesome!!!!
I ended up leaving that place cause dealing with shitty tourists all day is lame.
Luckily, I landed at a job that is pretty hip, progressive and forward thinking. (A co-worker friend is transgendered, female to male, an the insurance provided by work is covering his re-assignment surgeries!!)
I can show up in a cowboy hat, tube top, pajama pants and flip flops and get a hi-five from my boss. with that kinda feeling in the work environment, everyone is positive and work gets done and it's a win/win situation.
I just hope in the future more employers will understand : the happier the employee they better they will work
and sometimes being happy at work is just wearing a t-shirt vs. shirt & tie!

From the ages of 23-28 I was doing reservations for shows an all the fancy restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip. The money was good, which allowed me to a ton of traveling and get tattooed.
When I first started the dress code was dress shirt/tie/slacks. They relaxed it down to casual (t-shirts/jeans) and actually saw productivity and moral shoot up, but ya still had to keep your tattoos covered. I didn't mind 'cause I'm a private person and didn't really wanna "show off to my co-workers", (It sucked during the summer, wearing long sleeves, the Vegas summer is hell!) but I had co-workers who would rally against the machine and engage our over-lords about revamping the dress code to allow exposed tattoos, it worked!
An I believe productivity/moral even increased a little more. I was stoked, no more long sleeves during the summer!
Plus, I got to see some of my co-workers tattoos. One dude had both arms sleeved with crop-circles, an each crop circle designed had a specific meaning. I wouldn't say the tattoos were good. but they were hilariously awesome!!!!
I ended up leaving that place cause dealing with shitty tourists all day is lame.
Luckily, I landed at a job that is pretty hip, progressive and forward thinking. (A co-worker friend is transgendered, female to male, an the insurance provided by work is covering his re-assignment surgeries!!)
I can show up in a cowboy hat, tube top, pajama pants and flip flops and get a hi-five from my boss. with that kinda feeling in the work environment, everyone is positive and work gets done and it's a win/win situation.
I just hope in the future more employers will understand : the happier the employee they better they will work
and sometimes being happy at work is just wearing a t-shirt vs. shirt & tie!

From the ages of 23-28 I was doing reservations for shows an all the fancy restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip. The money was good, which allowed me to a ton of traveling and get tattooed.
When I first started the dress code was dress shirt/tie/slacks. They relaxed it down to casual (t-shirts/jeans) and actually saw productivity and moral shoot up, but ya still had to keep your tattoos covered. I didn't mind 'cause I'm a private person and didn't really wanna "show off to my co-workers", (It sucked during the summer, wearing long sleeves, the Vegas summer is hell!) but I had co-workers who would rally against the machine and engage our over-lords about revamping the dress code to allow exposed tattoos, it worked!
An I believe productivity/moral even increased a little more. I was stoked, no more long sleeves during the summer!
Plus, I got to see some of my co-workers tattoos. One dude had both arms sleeved with crop-circles, an each crop circle designed had a specific meaning. I wouldn't say the tattoos were good. but they were hilariously awesome!!!!
I ended up leaving that place cause dealing with shitty tourists all day is lame.
Luckily, I landed at a job that is pretty hip, progressive and forward thinking. (A co-worker friend is transgendered, female to male, an the insurance provided by work is covering his re-assignment surgeries!!)
I can show up in a cowboy hat, tube top, pajama pants and flip flops and get a hi-five from my boss. with that kinda feeling in the work environment, everyone is positive and work gets done and it's a win/win situation.
I just hope in the future more employers will understand : the happier the employee they better they will work
and sometimes being happy at work is just wearing a t-shirt vs. shirt & tie!

I ordered it an impulse buy off Amazon last week. It's rad! I've been taking my time digesting it..the book is worth checking out.

Howdy, hank! Thanks for introducing yourself.

Hi Hank, welcome!

Dude, this was during the initial event. Thats how mad I was.
After she walked out I listened to Blood For Blood and drank myself to death with good scotch.

Hello everyone, my name is Hank.
I have a pretty chill job and during my down time I've been lurking the site for a while now. So, I finally decided to take the plunge and become a registered user.
Here's some factoids about myself:
I'm from Las Vegas.
some of my interests:
Punk Rock/Rock n' Roll
Comic Books
Tacos
Tattoos
I started getting getting tattooed when I was 23 (I'm now 31)
Also, here's a picture of something I got recently.

Hello everyone, my name is Hank.
I have a pretty chill job and during my down time I've been lurking the site for a while now. So, I finally decided to take the plunge and become a registered user.
Here's some factoids about myself:
I'm from Las Vegas.
some of my interests:
Punk Rock/Rock n' Roll
Comic Books
Tacos
Tattoos
I started getting getting tattooed when I was 23 (I'm now 31)
Also, here's a picture of something I got recently.