Does your job allow tats?

Just none on the face or hands

Some employers will not hire some one "excessively tattooed" because they dont want that representing thier company.
Tattoos are showing up on EVERY one these day. Not just trashy bikers and sailors any more.
The main part is, that an employer doesnt want to see naked pinups, rasicst tattoos. any bloody/violence typed ink..

Most employers Ive worked with though, have no prefferance to it though...

Im self imployed, and own a recovery/reposession business. So I dont have a problem with that. I have 2 full sleeves, one of my legs is almost worked to a sleeve, and various tattoos on other parts of my body. Because Im around office type and uppity white colar class people most of the time when i bring a car back to the lien holder I will get looked at differently because of my tattoos.

Oh well though. Its MY body...some one else shouldnt care whats on it. But thats just my opinion.

Im in the Military, I'm tattooed everywhere. I'd say, be sure to invest in long-sleeve shirts in the corporate world tho...

I have never had a problem finding a job, despite previous extensive body modifications. My only visible tat is on the back of my neck.

But I did have my lower lobes at an inch and half, as well as several other stretched piercings, nape piercing, etc.

i have worked as a manager, caregive, curator, writer, editor, academic, etc.

I think it just depends on where you work and what kind of job you want. I haven't worked for corporations, and now manage a lighting company in which most of my interactions are online, dealing with factories, importers, exporters, and distribution. So it is a perfect job for me. I am the only person I work with that doesn't have any exectation to dress up.

I used to manage a group home for adults with autism, and found that my pierced up tatted staff seemed to bring a different vibe to the job, and it worked out really well. My client's guardians were in their 70's and loved that their kids were surrounded by flexible, creative people....

But critical... tatted or not... the staff has to have the skills to do the job, that is where your credibility on a job site comes from.

Bruce

PS: I live in Montreal too... so an off colour look is the norm and can even be a hiring bonus, depending on where you are.

I have quite a few tats, most visible....Fortunatley I work in the entertainment industry...so its all good!

I think that as far as the job goes, you would just have to look into it a little to see what their policies would be as far as tats go. My job will allow tats (as long as they are not offensive, like advance recovery said, no naked people tats, nothing racist, etc.) but they will not allow multiple piercings or visible body piercings (like ones on someone's face....).

But just to throw the thought out there also, I would also look into policies of the school(s) that you may plan on attending as well. My sis ran into a problem here recently where her school (she is going to nursing school) does not allow any visible tats while going to clinicals. So because one of her tats is on her wrist (and she and parents have already shelled out $30,000 for her to go to school there) she is opting to have it laser removed, since it is in a place that would be real hard for her to cover it up with makeup due to having to wash hands and lower arms a lot for procedures, etc. And they don't allow the students to wear long sleeves under their scrubs. (It's all kinda silly if you ask me, I am just glad that I am going to nursing school somewhere else. That school has a sort of history of not telling you something important until the last minute.) Just something else to think about as well.

It also depends on what type of person you are, in a way, also. If you have the right kind of personality and skills for a job, you could feasably work your way into a position that someone with tats and a bad attitude would not, if you're tattooed.
I believe that there are lines that should not be crossed in body modification, personally. Do I hate people who go to the extreme? Nope; it is their body and life. But I personally would not get anything on my face, or my hands/lower arms. I can thus fit into the corporate world (my employer; yikes) as it serves me, while still having tattooes and exposing them as I see fit.

There is a person working at my local petsmart who seems to have tennis elbow, needs a wrist brace.. and has band aids.
Nope.. he has tattoos.
He has to cover them up due to the short sleeve shirt they wear.
He found flesh colored wraps and braces allowed him to cover up his many small tattoos that fell below his short sleeved shirt. BUT he has to wear a band aid over the one on his neck..
Every day he works.
Just an FYI

I'm a union construction worker. We do high end offices for lawyers and high end clients of the like.

So with business associates and clients constantly hovering arounds us. We don't allow tattoos. My boss is a stickler like that. I have 9 tattoos total. With 3 visible. But am constantly told to get rid of em. Haha

Tattoos are becoming more mainstream that's for sure. But profiling with tattoos is the same as racial profiling. Its wrong but it still happens.

I to work in the construction industry, i work in fancy offices build giant buildings for large corporations. I have tats on both arms wrists legs, i dont cover them up. You know i agrree with its also about personality and attitude that also gives people something else to judge you by.