Men aren't afraid of death, men are afraid of being useless.
With the modern era where money is the most important thing, people will judge what the thing you're doing based on the outcome.
If you learn how to tattoo in order to be a tattoo artist, people will see it as a positive thing.
If you learn how to tattoo just because you like it or any other reasons, people will not see it as a positive thing, instead they will think you're still a kid.
Personally I no longer happy when I play video games or relax, now it's all about work, work, and work.
In the end, our current society has accustomed us to get this idea of being infinitely productive and be okey with it, as if we were machines, work and money have become the most important things nowadays, two kinds of neopagan gods which governs our society and those who do not serve to money or work through their talents and skills is deemed to be an outcast and left behind.
It is okey to have a job and enjoy being productive, but big corporations and governments do not see work was they used to now, they are going to try to replace as many of us with thinking machines, which will never need to rest, will never complain or form unions.
All for profit.