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Jobs that you know allow piercings & tattoos
So just curious..what are some "average" paying jobs out that you know piercings and tattoos are allowed at?! For example, I'm currently working at Blockbuster which allows it...but I don't plan on staying there too much longer. So where are some places or even just areas of work that I should start looking into for a new job? Jan 22 09 12:42 am Link Shyla Suicide wrote: I'm a game designer Jan 22 09 12:45 am Link Jose G Photo wrote: well you need to go to school for that, correct? Alright, so in the mean time, what jobs? Jan 22 09 12:49 am Link Shyla Suicide wrote: Let me fill you in on a secret. You don't NEED to go to school to work in the Gaming Industry. You simply have to be good at...well...something. I started as a tester and things went up from there. But still, on our team of 25 only...3 guys have a degree in the design field. Hell, my degree is in musical education lol Jan 22 09 12:52 am Link Shyla Suicide wrote: Depends on the management... Jan 22 09 12:54 am Link Jose G Photo wrote: Hmmmm get paid to play all day I'm in sign me up!! Jan 22 09 01:04 am Link I find wherever I work, I just start out looking respectable and gradually work my dress sense, etc, up to the way I usually dress and see how far I can push it. You'd be surprised what you can get away with! (Saying that, I've only one piercing and I can say with absolute certainty that none of my work colleagues are ever going to see it.... >. Jan 22 09 01:40 am Link Bodypeircer or tattooist? Probably the only job whre more is better.. I feel like if a peircer or tattooist has a lot themselves, they know thier s***  XXOOXX Jan 22 09 02:25 am Link Charlotte Thorburn wrote: Jan 22 09 02:33 am Link It's interesting actually-my best friend is an accountant and we were discussing tattoos the other day. She was saying how many people in her office have visible tattoos (arms and wrists mostly) creeping out from under their suits. I think it's becoming way more regular. The interview is prob the time to cover them up and then once the job is secure start showing them off! Jan 22 09 05:35 am Link MMM... waitress, record store, trendy boutique, warehouse work, bar back, bartender. Love your ink BTW. Jan 22 09 06:23 am Link I'm a receptionist at a travel agency and I rock my tattoos almost daily. Also were allowed to show them at Target, various nice sit down restaurants, and Panera. Really it just depends on your boss and what kind of ink you're showing. But the key is definitely to show up to an interview looking cute and conservative then slowly let the ink show. Chances are they won't be fussy about it. Not all the time of course, but chances are... Jan 22 09 06:39 am Link A rule of thumb: the more the job requires interactions with the public, the less likely that tattoos & piercings will be tolerated. No one cares if the guy stocking the shelves after hours or the guy working back in the warehouse looks like, but if the job is greeting the conservative business men or selling insurance or whatever, you don't want rough looking people in those jobs. For a couple of decades, I worked as a software engineer, and for the most part, we had limited face-to-face interactions with customers (we did interact on the phone or via e-mail) -- no one cared what we looked like or how we dressed (within reason, of course -- managed frowned upon naked Mondays). Later, I telecommuted -- I even worked in my sweat pants & t-shirt -- no one cared. Jan 22 09 08:36 am Link Hot Topic! Jan 22 09 08:41 am Link Paul Bryson Photography wrote: This is the correct answer. Jan 22 09 08:48 am Link Target is piercing and tattoo friendly. Anything in food (fast food, grocery store cashier) is most likely not. Maybe try another video store besides Blockbuster? Unless you don't want that kind of job again. Jan 22 09 10:13 am Link Heather_G wrote: I think they require tats & piercings. Jan 22 09 10:15 am Link At my future radiation therapist job, I am allowed to have discrete piercings - ie. nostril, eyebrow or hidden, of course. Same with tattoos. If you don't see it, it's fine. I work at a pharmacy, and nobody has complained about my nostril piercing. Jan 22 09 10:17 am Link __Rose wrote: Grocery store cashier? From my experience and what I've seen, a lot of them allow piercings. Jan 22 09 10:18 am Link I have a full on corporate gig in the financial district in LA in one of those buildings with more tight-laced lawyers in it than stairs, and I wear my big ol' Indian nose stud to work every day anyway, and never bother trying to cover up the tattoo on my wrist. The CEO came and had lunch with me and a couple of other people a month ago, and he didn't bat an eye. Jan 22 09 10:21 am Link Shyla Suicide wrote: A lot of corporate jobs don't seem to care what you look like, as long as you're qualified and do the job, or at least (form what it seems) investment companies and bank corporate jobs don't care. Jan 22 09 10:22 am Link Andrew Thomas Designs wrote: Yep. In my experience it's dependent on whether your office gets a lot of outside traffic. In my field, clients never - ever - come to our office, so nobody really cares. I could probably dye my hair purple and it wouldn't phase anyone. Jan 22 09 10:24 am Link Sita Mae wrote: Pretty much, however they are a little sticky sometimes about a dresscode, but shit, I feel if you pay me that much money I can at least dress how they want. Jan 22 09 10:26 am Link Phone jobs, and a lot of office jobs I've heard don't really care. Some retail places as well. Jan 22 09 10:27 am Link i was a quality control auditing clerk for USPS [3 years] when i had dreads... its amazing how much more open minded employers are being now also, target, walmart, and restaurants [but you have to wear those cover up bands....for that...] Jan 22 09 10:48 am Link Heather_G wrote: i use to call that the evil store because it just urks me. Jan 22 09 10:50 am Link Um, MUA and photographer! People just chalk it up to us being flaky and creative. Jan 22 09 10:53 am Link I'm in Graphic design and I'm one of the least tattooed people in my company. Jan 22 09 10:58 am Link Depends on the job/the company honestly... and if they are desperate for workers, that also helps. I worked for a grocery store chain, in the bakery department. That store allowed tattoos, but they generally had to be covered up. Piercings were only allowed in the ears if you were female; none if you were male. I screwed up that rule when I was hired and during my employment. I got a eyebrow piercing(the store manager was always in our department and talking to me..but apparently never noticed and my boss said nothing when I went "hey look what i did this weekend!") and didn't get fired. While a girl in the deli was told to take her nose piercing out only a few months prior by the store manager. A guy in the dairy department had two nose piercings, three eyebrow piercings and covered in tattoos. He wore big rings in his nose too..he still got hired and I believe still works there. I work for a theatre society and started off in the box office/ushering. The box office manager doesn't discriminate against tattoos or piercings. Almost all of the younger staff have piercings and tattoos in plain view. We dealt with elderly people A LOT, but none of them seem to mind. The box office and ushering staff are even allowed to have weird coloured hair..I once had punk purple and punk red hair, and had an elderly customer tell me how she loved it so much and wanted to do it to her hair too! I've been hired for cafe jobs despite them having a rule about only allowing ear piercings..because they were desperate for workers. Even now, I still work for the theatre society but I'm the Admin Assistant/Marketing in the office. I don't dye my hair as crazy(but I still have punk colours and crazy dye jobs)..but even though I'm the first person a client sees when they come into the office and they could've hired someone with more experience, older(I was 20 at the time) and with no tattoos or piercings..I still got the job. Cuz I'm considerate, I ask them before I do anything -really- crazy with my hair, but so far I've had the greenlight for whatever I do. I've gone away for the weekend to the mainland and come back with more piercings(though they weren't planned) and they don't even bat an eye. I have friends who deliver food or work as waiters/waitresses in fancy restaurants..who are covered in tattoos and have facial piercings. If you have the skills they want, tattoos/piercings shouldn't keep you from getting the job. Jan 22 09 11:31 am Link There's a few CD and music stores around here that allow their staff to sport "alternative" looks. Jan 22 09 11:33 am Link Anything 'alternative' retail-- Hot topic, some music or art stores. Some coffee shops. Some insurance companies and other large corporations don't care what you look like if you're not interacting with people-- so call centers, mail sorters, stuff like that. Check Kinkgo's, my friends Kim and Steve worked there for awhile, and they're both visibly tattooed, and kim had plenty of junk in her face. Waitressing and bartending, they generally don't care what you look like as long as you're good at your job. Most cooks aren't allowed to have a lot of piercings, for fear of jewelry coming loose while they are cooking. edit: In Chicago, you should have a lot more options open to you. Jan 22 09 11:57 am Link Saffron G wrote:
Jan 22 09 12:01 pm Link I've seen some people with piercings and tatts working at Target. Jan 22 09 12:05 pm Link I saw a cashier working at K-Mart with more tattoos than I have ever seen. He even had letters on his knuckles! Jan 22 09 12:26 pm Link toss in a beanie and head to your local apple store. Jan 22 09 12:26 pm Link hmmm, well hottopic, obviously.  in my town there's a local pizza shop. Um tattoo parlors... I can't really think of many chains that do. If I were you I'd just try to pay attention to places you go where you've seen people have them and then apply there.Jan 22 09 12:34 pm Link pixie toxique wrote: I guess it depends on the store. I know a lot of Big Y employees from many stores, and they are very strict there. Only ears pierced, no showing tattoos. Many of their other rules not concerning piercings are equally as strict. That may be because the owner of the stores in my area does not allow them, and other owners do. Jan 22 09 01:31 pm Link Shyla Suicide wrote: They probably wouldnt allow it at the shop I'm in now, but when I was delivering pizza for less corporate places I had piercings in my lip, nose, and visible tattoos when I was wearing shorts. Jan 22 09 01:35 pm Link I worked at Albertsons and Target with tattoos on my hands. Jan 22 09 01:43 pm Link I work at Sam Ash and we work on commission sales and everyone that works there has tattoos. Jan 22 09 06:43 pm Link |
