Hello! I have a question for all users of the site - what is your opinion about hiring people who have an unusual appearance. This year is my last and I plan to start working after that, but I'm worried if they will accept me because of my appearance. I definitely don't think of doing anything serious as a lawyer, etc., I'm going to become a waitress, to work in a clothing store than the ones in the malls, etc., and then something more serious, but I'm afraid they would hire me. My hair is bright blue and turns green and yellow, I have piercings on my nose and lips, I have tattoos, one is on my neck, the others are all over my hands, my style is quite unusual - I wear a lot of black clothes and makeup almost it's always smoky to me. I know it's most important for employers to do your job, but they're unlikely to take a person, to repel their customers. Don't advise me to change my appearance, I can't do it, it's part of me. I just want advice on where they would accept me at all because of the way I look or there is no such option?
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If it was up to me - yes, I would, but not for any more serious work. For example, for a club - bartender, waitress or hostess, your appearance is ideal. :)
No serious restaurant or shop will take a person of this kind. Are you kidding?
they will most likely take you to places where the customers are the same as you - piercing and tattoo studios, restaurants with such a clientele, a rock bar or something like that. It seems difficult to others. Behind this type usually hide complexes and lack of depth. But it's your choice, if it's more important for you to be shocked by your appearance, go ahead.
I advise you to focus on a place where your appearance will attract customers and not repel them. For example, a punk / metal shop or a bar / restaurant with such music. Maybe in a mall in a more extravagant store.
I don't think they'll take you. If only there were two or three earrings and one tattoo okay. But yours is too much.
You shouldn't have a problem, especially for a waitress. Even in some more alternative bars they would prefer. I have tattoos, piercings and I have been working in a state-owned enterprise for almost 9 years, so ... These prejudices are gone.
Hi, Unfortunately, the people here are still very conservative, including employers. They won't take you as a waitress in an expensive restaurant or shop, it's just not right. My advice is to go to shops and restaurants / clubs where they sell / listen to underground things. For example rock / metal clubs, shops like In the Dark, etc.
"Don't advise me to change my appearance, I can't do it, it's part of me." That would only be true if you were born that way. There is no employer to hire such a person in the sense of whose characteristics he must take into account. You need him. He's right from you - no.
As another part of you add a good education. In my opinion, a woman without a university degree is lost and doomed to be crushed in both the work and family environment. Otherwise, at this age and with this appearance you can try working in a nightclub, in a tattoo and piercing studio, in a shop like skate shops and in general in places where the clientele has a similar style. Honestly, I'm a young man, I have 2 tattoos, I'm not super conservative, but soon I came across a laboratory assistant with your description and I was a little worried that this girl would sting me and take my blood. I looked at her to see if she was clean, her nails and things like that, she had some prejudice, keep that in mind.
Abroad, sweetheart, in Western Europe. People in Bulgaria still live in the Middle Ages and this will not change soon.
As a customer, I would be repulsed if the waitress or saleswoman had such an appearance. But I have the so-called traditional taste.
10, isn't it more medieval to blame people for wanting to be served by a normal person? So everyone is free to pretend to be a monkey, but he is not free to choose a normal salesman in the store, and this has been the case since the Middle Ages. What you say about normal people applies to you in full force.
So you need a job, but you don't want to comply with anyone - neither the employer nor the clients, and you think they have to comply with you. Well, sorry, but as many saleswomen and shops as you want - no one will make any compromise with you. You may want to walk with a chain from nose to ear, but no one has to put up with you in their store. Except selling in a metal shop. And no, that's not part of you, it's part of your stupidity. You go home if you want a nail stuck in your ass, but in society you have to take into account little by little once you lean against it. I may want to tattoo a cock on my forehead, but ...
12, there is nothing abnormal in a person with tattoos, piercings and hair with a non-standard color. Honestly, all girls with hyaluronic acid in their lips look more abnormal, but no one describes them as abnormal, right? Yes, I stand by my statement - it is medieval to judge a person by his appearance. Medieval is also your absolutely discriminatory way of thinking - forgive me, but you can't convince me that it is right to qualify as an abnormal person only on the basis of his appearance. I don't blame you, however - the environment is like that and that's what I meant in my previous comment.
<13> That's what the girl is used to. And if her parents were in place, would it be like Nikita from the last BB. ;) And enough with this Middle Ages. Last night on the news they gave two "parents" from Norway - they were transsexuals. And they had a child. Just looking at you makes your hair stand on end. Is that what you want? Is this the modern world? People without gender, without morals, without identity? Go to Norway and you will have it;)
14, so why are those with piercings more normal than those with jukes? So you judge those with jukes, but those with piercings are OK. And what do you think of me then, after judging the appearance again? In my opinion, both types are abnormal. And the external is important, because it is largely an indicator of your way of thinking. And why not "blame" me? Because I have an opinion? And is it better to be overly tolerant as in Western Europe, where every lunatic is well received? In Sweden, a scandal has now erupted that some have already baptized their children with gender-neutral names, that when they grow up they can only choose their gender. And in kindergartens, the teachers told them that they were neither girls nor boys, that they could choose for themselves when they grew up. Then a Swedish psychologist explained why this was not good for children. But we have to be like Westerners and copy them blindly, they are defined as kuuuul, and we as medieval. Why? And why do you think tolerance is cool? And I'm FOR everyone to be free, but if you want to work in a store, you can't stand out in front of customers with a nose piercing and claim that they should probably comply with you, and not you with them? OK - to walk with a nail in their ass, but at least in society and at work to compliment. Does it bother you so much to look normal for 8 hours? Why is this freedom and tolerance not used for something constructive, but only for simplicity? Wanting to be so free and go with the nails to become a metal performer or waitress in such a place, why is this imposition at any cost under the pretext, that it was part of it? Freedom is not = forcing one's own truth and denying generally accepted norms. As long as you have interpreted freedom as anarchy. Freedom is freedom, but there are some rules and norms.
There will always be an idiot like №10 who will interfere with the state and the people, neither in a wedge nor in a sleeve. I would say that even some customers will be interested in entering the store just to communicate with you. In fact, if you're sullen, crazy, chewing gum, or always with a cigarette in front of the store, you'll repel anyone who would want to enter the store. Smiling, cheerful, communicative, but not intrusive - as a waitress you will take bigger tips, and as a saleswoman you will have more sales and therefore a higher salary. That's what I can tell you.
18, this explained it to store owners. I'm sure they will agree with you and kill each other to hire the author to attract clients of interest to communicate with her. And how much it will repel, you do not mention.
See here: https://www.bg-mamma.com/?topic=1092142 At least you will not have to explain to customers about your appearance.
Probably the look matches your character. So choose a job in which YOU will feel good. Do not sell in the mall, sell in a metal shop or skate / snowboard clothing and accessories store, etc. choose your job according to your interests. Otherwise, even if you are accepted with your appearance, you will be like a white crow, your colleagues will be boring and you will hate your work. Choose a place that is as interesting as yourself. And don't pay attention to the stupid conformists above. Do not adjust to the crowd, but look for your place.
It is better to look for a job where such an appearance is not only not a problem, but even a bonus. In a tattoo parlor, in an innovative hair salon, etc., because I don't think they'll hire you as a mall saleswoman or a waitress, unless it's a club.
Looking for a job as a circus clown. You may not find anything else. Anyway, what are you hoping for after you've become human-like? And after your appearance expresses obvious disrespect for others? It was part of it - childhood.
I'll try to guess - besides all its colors and fat, right? The fat ones like to disguise themselves with various "extras".
Hey, 24, I'm not the author, but I'll try to guess - you're a young man from a small town who has moved to a big city. You were a jerk at school, but now you think you're cool because you have a car and you're skiing. You like to watch football. You love Serbian music, but you don't understand the lyrics, even though you've been listening to them since you were a child. Your feet smell, but no one will tell you. Women don't like you, but you make them ugly in front of your friends anyway, with whom you look a hell of a lot alike. You are just like one person. You go to the gym. You tag yourself when you drink and exercise and think that someone is interested in your dull gray life. Your biggest concern is that you started balding so early, but in fact the only thing you need to worry about is that you are mediocre. So mediocre, that you are boring even to yourself. Well, did I guess? :)
By the age of 17, I am absolutely sure that there is no such nonsense in Sweden, especially on a large scale.