Man feels misled, frustrated that tattoos cost him job

[hunter]

70. He's living in the wrong city or applying for the wrong jobs.

Gang or prison tattoos and obvious sexually explicit tattoos seem to be the only barriers to employment in my community. And there are programs that will assist unemployed people getting gang or prison tattoos removed for free.

My siblings all have body art but of the sort easily hidden by workplace clothing. Heck, one of my grandpas had tattoos that every hard working, hard partying, wartime shipyard worker enjoyed. If you could build and repair Liberty and Victory ships, and you could affirm your support of the U.S.A. in some way, then you were hired. Not much else mattered.

I don't have any tattoos, mostly because I hate needles. But I do have a pierced ear. I used to wear a shiny synthetic diamond in it. Alcohol and a girlfriend overcame my aversion that day.

I didn't decorate my ear when I was a public school teacher but the kids did notice my ear was pierced. I had watch over hundreds of kids each semester. When I was doing my job right they were all granting their full attention to me and their science lessons, therefore they had all the time in the world to notice my pierced ear. And that was okay with me. I'd rather be more interesting than the second hand of a clock.

An unrelated aside, as a naive young teacher I didn't know what would happen when my wife visited my classroom one day.

Almost every adolescent mind went there instantly, a great disturbance in The Force.

They have SEX!

I've never felt more naked, even when I've been naked.