Comments on The Career Revolution: Tattoo? And You Want To Work Here?

Well you know sometimes the tatoo goes wrong and y...

2007-11-17T22:32:00.000-06:00

Well you know sometimes the tatoo goes wrong and you end up with a permanent mistake on your skin, which really suck, as long as you got the right one its ok,
lucky for me I did'nt get a mistake on my skin, Instead I found this ebook on the ebay.ca website, i give you guys a link below, you can get a tatoo book that gives you all the tatoo so you can choose the righte one and ask for that to be on your skin. It also tells you how to make the tatoo your self, which is pretty cool.
heres the link:
http://blogs.ebay.ca/keeth101/entry/LADIES-GOT-INK-800-Tattoos-Plus-6-eBooks-Love-To-I/_W0QQidZ294972018
Also its was LESS THAN $5.00 BUCKS, pretty cool.

I seem to have the opposite problem I want to work...

2007-10-05T08:44:00.000-05:00

I seem to have the opposite problem I want to work in a tattoo shop but I only have one very small tattoo were it is not visable unless I choose to make it so. The tattooists only see me as a potential client but I want to be a tattoo artist and when I try talking to them about it they dont want to know. I am also female and almost 40. I will not give up and hope to find someone to teach me ASAP as I can only learn so much from dvds etc. I am already an artist and have a very steady hand and also use machines to cut wooden light switch decorations, then I paint them lots of detail (check my web site) and make wooden pens. I wish it had occured to me to be a tattooist 20 years ago.

To be honest, I don't think most people should hav...

2007-08-09T09:04:00.000-05:00

To be honest, I don't think most people should have a problem. As long as you don't go to your interview actually showing off your ink, then you can be sure you won't be judged on it.

As you note, most companies would probably be surprised at the number of employees who actually have tattoos that they don't know about.

The only problem areas might be hands, neck or head: if you get a tattoo in one of these places, then it becomes hard to cover up if you are in a situation where you might want to. You probably have to be quite hardcore into tattoos in order to get inked in any of those places anyway.

Although I regularly show off my tattoos at work, I have demonstrated time and again that I am perfectly capable of covering them up with a suit and hobnobbing with bankers!

Actually, I've found that if I accidently show them off (my shirt sleeves are shorter than I expect or something), they can be a benefit. As a journalist working in the business world, they are a bit of a surprise, and can get people talking!