No offence, but it's not society that stops you from getting a job.

It's common knowledge that these jobs won't hire you because they don't want the people who keep the company running, the consumers, to be turned away from their establishment because they judge you and eventually fear you. They fear you, their looks on the place will go down and slowly but surely the company will lose money, hence if you go into most stores or establishments, everyone looks generally the same, maybe with slight differences.

I keep my tattoo's where I can cover them, I'm a metal head but I don't need to show the world that and I'm prefectly fine getting job interveiws at nearly every job I apply too.


My boyfriend on the other hand does not dress to the norm and can't find a job to the life of him, not because he's not a good worker, because of how he looks.

Personally, people can have fun expressing themselves all they want on the outside, because I'm amused when they are in awe that they can't do anything once they get into the job world unless they have a degree that over-rides their looks.

The job world has -always- been like this. The only jobs people who are not "eye-appealing" get are one's behind the scene's and those arn't the best. My friend has about 4 peircings on her face, after 15 interveiws that she didn't get hired for, she eventually got hired for a job in which she only answers phones, meaning that the customer never actually sees her.

My cousin wants to be a teacher, she has a total of 10 visible tattoo's. Guess what, she can't get an internship because no one wants a teacher at their school who looks like that. She regrets every single one of those tattoo's because her dream since she was a kid was to be a teacher and now it's becoming -very- difficult just to get an internship.

I like being a metalhead, I like the tattoo's I have, I also like the fact I can get a job in a second because I keep who I am on the inside and don't display it on the outside.