munchie

Would you choose loyalty or the potential for (great) career advancement if you had the choice? Just to add to the mix, what if you had very little faith in your ability BUT had been proven otherwise and given the chance to know and do better?

It's kind of a testament to facebook-dare I say it-as a networking tool. I've been in contact with the owner of an extremely reputable piercing/tattoo studio in the last six months or so, chatted with him at suspensions, asked if I could help the team and asked in the past whether or not he needed someone (this was probably about 6 months ago, before my current one) for his studio.

He recently advertised that he was looking for someone very experienced to join their team and I jokingly replied that if I had a folio, more experience and didn't already love the place that I was working in that I would apply.

His response was "Actually, Munchie-you'd crossed my mind"

Then I checked my inbox on the weekend and BOOM

"Would you like a job at *******?"

I've told him in the past that I don't have experience with any needles other than catheters and i've only done limited upper body piercing.

My response was that it was an extremely generous offer, listed my hesitations, but said that I would be keen and asked what hours he was looking to fill.

His response was something to the effect of "Just trying to get a feel for you and whether piercing is your thing or if you have other passions, what are your long term plans/goals, etc?"

I wrote a freakin essay in response and I must've said something right because he responded positively and wanted to know what i'm currently getting paid and what hours i'd be offered at my current job

SO

Therein lies the question; would you jump ship away from the best people you've worked with to take the risk and do the stuff you've only dreamed about for the last five years (and know that some of the new people are at least pretty cool; my tattoo artist works there )