Jameelia Masden

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

The lion represents me as a Leo, that is my zodiac sign. I feel that I am enthusiastic, inspiring, confident, and I just have a passion for life. That is me in a nutshell. I have the stairway to heaven, above the lion, with a man fishing in the sunlight above that. The man fishing represents my father, who passed away in 2018. My father was an outdoorsman, and he loved to fish. So, I see him walking up that stairway and doing what he loved most and that is fishing in heaven. He caught a fish.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

My ink would tell me how proud it was of me, and that I have come a long way. Proudful of the woman that I have become. The ink my father telling me he loves me, he's proud of me and there is nothing I can't do if I put my mind to it. My father taught my siblings and I to be independent and do things for ourselves. I am still learning with the automotive things, but better late than never.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would take an overdue vacation and spend most of it paying to go back to nursing school. I just need a little help getting start to pay for classes while I cut back at work. I could apply for scholarships after that. I have my diploma, and I started going back to school for my associate's degree in nursing but didn't finish.