Career As a Professional Body Piercer
A body piercer is someone who decorates the human body with piercings. They stick needles through certain spots of the body to create a hole in it, where shortly after, they can insert a metal ring, or barbell. Body piercers make around 26-39 thousand dollars a year. Wage all depends on the employer. They work in tattoo and body piercing studio. You don't require any high school courses to become one, but you must go through a piercing apprenticeship. There are currently no job prospects right now, but I'm not looking for a job right now anyways so that's okay.
I'm interested in this career because body modifications are interesting and I really like them. You need to be very friendly, have good customer service skills, knowledge of the body part that you're piercing, safety and health regulations, infection control, first aid, able of presenting the precidure, preparing the area for the piercing, and knowing how to properly sterilize the jewelry and area of piercing. I feel like I would be good at being a body piercer because I already know a lot about piercing and I'm a very friendly person and I'm honestly really easy to talk to.
Something that concerns me about this job is the money aspect of it, and whether the wage would be enough to get me through the months, so I may need to get a second job. I can definitely see myself becoming a professional body piercer.
I'm interested in this career because body modifications are interesting and I really like them. You need to be very friendly, have good customer service skills, knowledge of the body part that you're piercing, safety and health regulations, infection control, first aid, able of presenting the precidure, preparing the area for the piercing, and knowing how to properly sterilize the jewelry and area of piercing. I feel like I would be good at being a body piercer because I already know a lot about piercing and I'm a very friendly person and I'm honestly really easy to talk to.
Something that concerns me about this job is the money aspect of it, and whether the wage would be enough to get me through the months, so I may need to get a second job. I can definitely see myself becoming a professional body piercer.
Bibliography
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"Fakir Intensives Body Piercing and Branding Intensives - Course Catalog."Fakir.org - 2013 Piercer Training, Spiritual Workshops and Online Store. Version 0. Fakir, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <http://fakir.org/classes/index.html>.
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