Whenever I see people with leeves and other very visible tattoos who otherwise look like they are productive members of mainstream society, I want to ask them what they do for work. Of course visible tattoos are no problem in jobs like tattoo artist, head shop proprietor, hairdresser, or maybe some artists, but are all those inked people in jobs like that?
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 3 December 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
I guess also: chef/cook, bartender in certain places.
But the ones who commute during 9-5er rush hours?
Eric H., do you anticipate your sleeve be an issue in work down the road?
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 3 December 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
Don't forget graphic designers!
Really anything but Sales and the finance-y stuffy jobs, p much. You keep 'em covered for the interview, and after that it's no one's business except yours, unless you're going somewhere to represent the company or etc.
― Making like Melusine (Pyth), Saturday, 3 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Nope, Jesse. No one really cares what the behind-the-scenes TV employees look like, and if I find out they do, well, I'll just switch to long sleeves.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
I actually am a graphic designer, but at a university library. Ive worked in IT as well. My brother-in-law is very heavily tattooed and is a philosophy professor (and a DJ, I guess). The other people I know with visible tattoos are both fine arts professors. I really don't know that many people with visible ink.
― joygoat, Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
The most heavily tattooed person I know is in a PhD program for neuroscience or some insanely smart shit, doesn't seem to have had any effect there either.
― Making like Melusine (Pyth), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
That's my fallback plan. To get a PhD.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
i know two recently-minted docs (one ER, one pathology) that have full sleeves on both arms, and have heavily tattooed legs as well
― river wolf, Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
So I think we can safely say that visibly tattooed people do mostly all the same jobs that non-visibly tattooed people do, except maybe, like, teach at a Baptist pre-school. I think the okay-ness is probably limited to arms, though, in terms of what you'd see in public? I can't imagine face or neck work being quite as acceptable.
― Making like Melusine (Pyth), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure full sleeves + neck + scalp = consigned to work at Pizza Luce, but I could be wrong.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I'm putting my resistance to the forearm tattoo idea I've had for a long time at +/- 2 more months, will upload a pic if I do it
― undervalued aerosmith tchotchkes sold in bulk, Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
that was always an issue for me earlier - what if i end up in a job where tattoos aren't acceptable? but i'm almost 32, i think it's pretty clear that if i haven't worked in that kind of environment so far, i probably never will. and like joygoat, i would never get hands/face/neck tattooed.
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
hey christine, if your husband is artistic there are a bunch of other ways he could utilise those skills that would be a lot cheaper/easier to implement: little original drawings, cards, that kind of stuff, is HUGE on etsy.com - you could start a store and try selling his stuff? not much overhead involved.
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 December 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
I'm 37 and can't imagine ever ending up working somewhere that would care about tattoos. Even if I did I can always roll my sleeves down.
Also, based on the general dress aptitude of university libraries and engineering school IT departments - where I often feel dressed up by wearing a clean button down shirt and long pants - I can't imagine that tattoos detract from the general dress code.
― joygoat, Saturday, 3 December 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
+ hard times + t-rock
― river wolf, Saturday, 3 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Would work at all those places, tbh.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
After spending a lot of time in Portland the food service professionals in Minneapolis seemed pretty under-tattooed by comparison but breakfast at the triple rock more than made up for it.
― joygoat, Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
i kindof really want to get this on my right calf
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/4030801293_e6c84ab2f3.jpg
― judith, Sunday, 4 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
it would have to be done like really well though, its not the kind of thing you can get away w/ half assed.
If I were to get a madonna:
http://www.hitomimatarese.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jean-Fouquet-Madonna-and-child1.jpg
With the red green angel background running Escher style around the limb.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Er, http://www.hitomimatarese.com/pages/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jean-Fouquet-Madonna-and-child1.jpg
and red blue cherub tiles.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
i like how he's pointing at his ma<-- hey look over there
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Sunday, 4 December 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Debating Milo Goes To College cover w/ no text vs. I Don't Want To Grow Up w/ the words top and bottom. The former was a much more important album to me, the latter a better design...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SMESX4F53BI/AAAAAAAALbs/IvhqWOFmprA/s400/descendents
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Descendents_-_I_Don
― milo z, Sunday, 4 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6455531803_f519bba588_z.jpgUntitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr
― milo z, Sunday, 4 December 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
that was a quick decision.
― judith, Sunday, 4 December 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think it even matters anymore. Tattoos are now mainstream and prob the majority under say 30-35
― kamb, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
Although ¡maracas!.jpg might be an exception
― kamb, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
Awwwww
http://www.okgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ashton_KUTCHER_TATTOO.jpg
― kamb, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:36 (twelve years ago) link