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