Tattoo's stopping you from a career?

I want to get a sleeve so bad but i'm afraid that if I get one it'll stop me from getting a job in the "corporate world" like office work and all of that fine and dandy shit. I'm in college now looking to get into a career when i'm done with school. I've heard stories and such with people being well qualified for a job but they wouldn't get hired just because they had a few tattoo's and I don't want that to happend to me so it's making me think twice...

Whats your take on this?

When you get that corporate job interview, be sure to wear a long sleeve shirt.

Oh and don't forget to double check your resume for apostrophe misuse.

+1 on the long sleeves.

it's mostly because of the "professional envirnonment" but it also has to do with interacting with customers/suppliers/people outside. they want you to make a good impression. i say get 2 half sleeves then you can wear short sleeved shirts in the summer as long as they're long short sleeves.

I disagree. I think that while they are more commonplace they aren't any less acceptable now than they were ten years ago. And I doubt they will be ten years from now.

Starbucks does. And if they do I can promise you higher paying jobs do. "No visible tattoos are allowed in the workplace." But then I talked to someone that told me she saw a guy working at one and had 2 FULL sleaves. Sooo I have no idea. Maybe it was just the owner of the one I applied at?

tattoed apostrophes are the new black

Yeah, I kept telling myself that. "No one cares about these things anymore." It's a nice thought. But man, after a summer of interviewing, I'm wondering if I ought to go that extra step and cover up my labret hole with a bit of concealer for the hour I'm in with Human Resources. Let alone tattoos.

I wear long sleeves all year long and it doesn't bother me at all. You get used to it pretty quickly. I also enjoy the Clark Kent / Superman value

yeah long sleeves for the win!
hel;ps that they look more classy and professional etc.


I thoguht of the consiquences half way through my T-sleeve.....then realized fuck it, I don't really have any ambition for corp jobs, i'm fine being a labourer

Hay, I am a General Manager, prior to that I was a Sales Manager with several companies

I just have to wear long sleeved shirts ...

I even have my neck tattoed, just made sure its under the collar line !

Do it >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Bingo. Short-sleeve dress shirts are incredibly dorky; a well-fitted long-sleeve dress shirt is much more professional looking, and will hide the tattoos nicely. It means no polo shirts on "casual friday," however. That'll get you through the interview and first months on a job.

I do know that in the professional circles that I get to be around (teaching, civil engineering, electrical engineering) tattoos are still frowned upon-- hated even by younger employees-- despite their increased popularity over the last decade and a half. Eventually, tattoos will be found out and discussed/gossiped. (Try to get a feel for a corporation-- if they've got a reputation of wanting their employees' personal lives to match the corporate ethos, there might be some problems when the tattoos are eventually discovered.)

True. Blatant apostrophe abuse = no interview at all.

luckily I have a good paying job that doesn't give a flying fuck what you look like.

How about dumping the corporate world? Let us dream for just a second and imagine oursleves creating an underground economy in which we accept everyone and everything (except the corporates and suburbanites, of course!) In other words, create your own job with your own standards! But be quick, this economy is about to collapse anyways....

There are jobs like the one Cash described. I have one.
Of course, I telecommute, so that probably has something to do with it.

I'm a firefighter...tattoos are the norm.

Untalented but well paid web developer/designer is my profession. I'm getting my first ink October 20th, after 9 years of working professionally. It will change very little, no one cares that much in Northern California.
Yes, the friends I have who are firefighters, they all have tattoos.

Ok here's the problem that I didn't mention: I have this on my arm for the past 2 years, before I was even thinking of the corp life

I'm not planning to get it removed either fuck that.

Then again I just might go with the have sleeves, I don't think that they'll "have a cow" for that spider tattoo.

oh by the way

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Just be so damn competent at your job that they would make an exception. lol