We’re looking forward to introducing you to Tara Jueckstock. Check out our conversation below.
Good morning Tara, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
When the 90-minute marker hits, I’m already on the road to head to work. I’m a medical professional, trained as Histology Technician. My job consists of embedding pieces of organ tissue in wax, then taking it to a special machine to thinly slice the specimen into sections, then mount them on slides to be stained.
My specific position is I’m the first person in the lab every day so I basically wake the lab up. The tissue processor is usually already beeping by the time I arrive.
While the job may seem repetitive and boring to some, it’s perfect for my brain because I can fixate on hyper-focus on the tasks, without much distraction.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Name’s Tara Lynne Jueckstock, and my photography company is called Enduring Depictions, because I like to think I create imagery that can withstand the test of time, or rather, endure!
Now that the puns are out of the way, I’ve come to realize that photography has grown into my passion and I just love capturing moments, be them candid or planned. People, or plants. The look in someone’s eye, or the glisten of a dew drop balanced on a blade of grass. Whatever and whenever the fancy suits me.
Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
That I cant do anything or my hands are tied. As children, we’re not really in control of the circumstances that raise us. As adults, we have the power to unlearn the bad and learn the good, and shape our lives however we see fit. Does it come easy? No, but you feel accomplished knowing you’re actively breaking or have broken bad cycles.
When did you stop hiding your pain and start using it as power?
To be forthright, I didnt see myself living past 25. I’ll be 40 in March of ’26. I wont get into the details here, but I remember asking myself if I wanted to wake up the next day. The answer was “yes.”
I kept waking up.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Is the public version of you the real you?
I try to be as transparent as possible, both online and in person. I like to be creative and share it with the world, and encourage others to do the same. Cringe or not, who cares? Share the damn thing!
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: How do you know when you’re out of your depth?
Call it a gut instinct, if you will. As a Histotech, the job can be stressful because you’re handling tissue that came from a living, breathing person. These people are probably at their wits end, waiting for test results to questions that are wearing on their mind. While the lab I work in now is wonderful and so are my coworkers, I’ve worked in labs where the stress caused me to have a health flare up (I live with Lupus, which is an autoimmune disease). I knew within the first week I’d bitten off more than I can chew, and within a month I was on anxiety medication.
When your job causes you health problems, it’s time to depart.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://enduringdepictions.mypixieset.com
- Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/enduringdepictions
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/enduringdepictions
Image Credits
Masked model – Nikki
Model in the tree – Tiffany Lubs
