I don't often refer requests for help for job applicants, but
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Tour guide for a Mayan ruin on the Yucatan Peninsula
She looks like an extra from Apocalypto
** Edited by Baltimore Hokie at 4/25/2024, 2:50:18 PM
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really, the 1st thing I think of. I try not to look at them after that, don't want that image in my head.
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Bigbadbird already mentioned a tattoo parlor.
My suggestion: "Cologuard package opening technician."
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Move to Nevada and become a prostitute.
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...becoming "snagged" on a piece of metal might scare a lot off...lol
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I work with plenty of people both men and women that have a lot of ink, but not on the face. Also the women don’t have an excessive amount of visible piercings…nose, ears, and the occasional eye. It’s acceptable but not grossly excessive.
The level of “professionalism” simply varies from professions to profession. Do you want the first face a customer sees entering a business to be the person that looks like a pin cushion and/or covered in tats? At a bar or tattoo studio…sure. At an insurance or lawyers office? Not so much.
There is nothing stopping a person from getting all the piercings and tattoos they want…but there are potential consequences to those choices and employment opportunities are big ones.
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She is over 80yo and I recognize she comes from an era where the only people with tattoos are bikers, sailors, and felons. She keeps trying to impress on the grandkids how horrible tattoos are and to never get them. Of course, my sister's kids are pretty heavily inked to the point I think making their grandmother cringe is a sport to them.
But I think my mom fails to realize that it is Gen-X'ers (and not Boomers or the Silent Generation) who are the ones making hiring decisions these days, and the trend of suburban, white, college kids getting tattoos started with that generation. "Some" amount of ink is genuinely considered normal and acceptable these days. Of the senior management staff at my workplace, I think about half have at least one tattoo.
One of my best friends is very heavily inked, but they all stop at the wrist and the neck and he is capable of looking professional when the need arises (he works in IT).
And that is the catch. Once you make the decision to get face or neck tats, there is no turning back. And you had better be comfortable with closing a lot of career paths for yourself. As commonplace and accepted as tattoos have become, that is still a line a lot of people aren't comfortable with. In the old days, any tattoo meant biker/sailor/felon. These days, most tattoos are acceptable, but face/neck tattoos carry more of a gang/felon vibe than a "I'm a free spirit and want to express myself" vibe. There are certainly places where face/neck ink won't hold you back, but TJ Maxx ain't one of them.
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the country run by octogenarians.
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That's my favorite new trend. The sitting in their car, crying or raging about how terrible their job is, the awful thing their boss did (somehow I suspect we're not getting the whole story), etc. Nothing like grabbing a gas can and tossing it into the fire you've already lit.
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This is a result of “everyone gets a trophy” and “there are no failures/losers”. Rejection is a powerful teaching moment…yet we have coddled this new generation and they have become delusional. People can’t handle their choices have consequences and everyone just doesn’t get a trophy in life.
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i have two 20 ish....they don't have a grasp on reality yet... it's gonna be rough.... like it was for all of us
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While technology is great at connecting people who are not necessarily geographically close, it also allows us to isolate ourselves into echo chambers that can fool us into thinking the majority of people think just like we do. It's gotten even worse in recent years with the apparent unwillingness of anyone to agree to disagree, so now even debate and open discourse are often taboo. That creates a fragmented society of people that don't function well as a cohesive group, and that seems to just drive people further into their corners, which only makes the fractures worse.
You mention your kids don't have a grasp on reality yet...sometimes I wonder if we older generations are the ones that don't have a grasp on the fact that this is the new reality that we helped create by raising coddled kids and allowing technology to fill the void that lots of parents are not filling anymore. That's not directed at you bigbadbird, but rather in a general sense about the trajectory of our culture.
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“Look at this meal I just ate”
“Look at me at the coffee shop”
“Look at my new shoes”
“Look at me driving down the road”
“Look at us at the basketball game”
“Look at my bro and his new truck”
“Look at my support for….”
“Look at us at the lake”
I fly often and it’s interesting sitting next to a member of the 20 something crowd. They have to post on Facebook, then X, then Instagram, then SnapChat, all while texting 5 different people about the plane they just boarded and where they are going. They make sure to connect to the available WiFi so they can continue on…all while listening to the in seat entertainment.
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physicians office. I had not been there in 8 years and they told me my regular doctor, a really nice man from India, had to many patients and they were sending me to one of their new doctors. This guy looks late 20 stumbles into the examine room sporting one of those things in his nose and plenty of tats. I was there for some foot issues and they scheduled a follow up physical after leaving. I immediately canceled the physical. My wife would not let it go and got me scheduled with one of other doctors at the office. I come back and the doctor comes in and says it appears you canceled your earlier physical. We are trying to move patients to our younger doctors and he bluntly states why did cancel? I looked at him and said that guy had a damn ring in nose. I can live with the tattoos but damn.
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Tats notwithstanding, young people and folks lacking experience in general have been priced out of the job market. And anybody with the slightest idea of how businesses work could see that coming with a minimum wage hike.
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long hair in college. Every generation tries to stamp its own. Getting to the real person is the point of the interview.
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What on earth will you do when you wake up one morning to find you’ve become one?!?
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it.
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piercings aren't such a big deal. If you're wearing a uniform and stocking shelves, it doesn't matter if you're tatted up. What does matter is that you have no experience, we don't know whether you'll even show up, much less do a good job, and it's going to cost us $15 an hour to find out.
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...are you going to hire the one with face tattoos and a nose ring, or the one without those items?
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I worked beside adults making $5 who were married, had kids and could afford plenty of cigs and beer. That $3.35 in 1982 is now worth $10.84, so the min wage now is significantly higher now than it was then.
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doubling the minimum wage? LOL
That is to say, before the minimum went up, $15 today would've been more like $4 in the 1970s, which both would have been about twice the minimum wage, so it was comparable and pretty much right where it should've been.
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Correlation isn't causation, but I'll grant that it's probably a factor.
But I've got to figure that other economic issues and items are bigger factors than the raising of the minimum wage.
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** Edited by Hokie CPA at 4/25/2024, 9:47:22 AM
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yes, there are record corporate profit dollars (which is what people in this regard are referring to) but the profit % is basically the same.
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pricing strategies. You can't double one their biggest expenses (payroll) without expecting a price adjustment. And they know the market will tolerate it because the bottom rung earners are earning a higher wage.
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the owners of a business venture want a return % that is commensurate with the level of risk to their capital. So....yes, record profit dollars on a higher amount of capital invested (inflation has increased the amount of capital needed to run a business) but the profit % on that investment is the same.
Politicians and their proxies have been using language like this for a very long time....its' great for a soundbite but really disingenuous.
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People need purpose to survive. We now have an entire class of people who have no purpose because they don't work. They have no skills and policies have both provided enough for them to get by and have priced them out of the market by creating financial incentives for businesses to take the risk and use illegal workers for no skill / low skill jobs.
Now all these people have nothing to do, no purpose in life and they self medicate. And thus, the core of the opioids problem.
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Hard not to see where it was going though....
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