Tattoos on your doctor or lawyer?

snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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Thanks for sharing, Eric.
Would it be a stigma for a high school teacher to get visible tattoos? It wouldn't affect job performance, but is it enough of a stigma to not be able to get a job? Still unsure about that. There are still jobs out there that prefer their employees not to have visible tattoos. Obviously, if I was dying, I wouldn't care if the guy who was saving my life had tattoos or not.
I am still eventually going to get a couple of tattoos myself. I just don't want it to be something on a whim or have any regrets.
 
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eric b 125

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There is enough stigma, in any profession, for tattoos to prevent people from getting jobs. But that is changing, albeit slowly. Quite frankly, that HS teacher with tattoos might be able to connect with certain kids on a level that other teachers can't; just like those other teachers can connect with certain kids that the teacher w/ tattoos can't. If parents think: Well this teacher having tattoos makes my kids want tattoos. Well, maybe that parent should either 1) let their kid make their own decisions or 2) stop expecting the school system to raise their kids and actually do a little parenting themselves, talk to the kid about why they want tattoos and go from there.
We have teachers molesting their students, sexting them, we have bullies that push kids to suicide, we have unhealthy foods being served in the cafeterias, we have lies being taught in history class, the kids are being taught things for the sole purpose of passing standardized tests, we have kids graduating with no clue on how to make responsible financial decisions or how to write resumes.... I think our school system has bigger concerns than a teacher with tattoos. Same goes for our legal and healthcare system.
 
reefraff

reefraff

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If I were hiring a lawyer, doctor or other professional I wouldn't consider anyone with visible tats. Just a fact of life that many people are still hung up on that. If my lawyer or doc had a tat I wouldn't think a thing about it.
 
darthtang aw

darthtang aw

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If I were hiring a lawyer, doctor or other professional I wouldn't consider anyone with visible tats. Just a fact of life that many people are still hung up on that. If my lawyer or doc had a tat I wouldn't think a thing about it.
That's just because you are old and set in your ways.
Darth (Hipster) Tang
 
phixer

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Im biased on this but to each his own I suppose. Growing up in the military it was a culture. Personally I find them disgusting on women and liken tattoos to graffiti on a statue ... basically desecrating a work of art. Not professional IMO and I would never patronize any so callled "professional" with visible tattos. Like I said though Im biased and can live with it.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by Phixer http:///t/324650/tattoos-on-your-doctor-or-lawyer/60#post_3532935
Im biased on this but to each his own I suppose. Growing up in the military it was a culture. Personally I find them disgusting on women and liken tattoos to graffiti on a statue ... basically desecrating a work of art. Not professional IMO and I would never patronize any so callled "professional" with visible tattos. Like I said though Im biased and can live with it.

Seriously???? The skin makes such a difference to you? LOL....To be honest, on some statues, graffiti is an improvement.
 
phixer

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Originally Posted by Flower http:///t/324650/tattoos-on-your-doctor-or-lawyer/60#post_3532950
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Originally Posted by Phixer http:///t/324650/tattoos-on-your-doctor-or-lawyer/60#post_3532935
Im biased on this but to each his own I suppose. Growing up in the military it was a culture. Personally I find them disgusting on women and liken tattoos to graffiti on a statue ... basically desecrating a work of art. Not professional IMO and I would never patronize any so callled "professional" with visible tattos. Like I said though Im biased and can live with it.

Seriously???? The skin makes such a difference to you? LOL....To be honest, on some statues, graffiti is an improvement.

I prefer the natural look of things, especially coral reefs. Nature provides the best artwork IMHO. Not make up or tattoos. A Moorish Idol wouldn't be the same with a tattoo.

Of course, it also makes a big difference to those who would choose to modify it. You cant take skin off like a shirt or change it out when it goes out of fashion the same way one could with a painting or sculpture. You could have it removed though? A natural look never goes out of fashion. I travel a lot and have noticed the same tattoo taboo in most of the worlds cultures if someone wants to be taken seriously. Just an opinion based on personal experience.
 
flower

flower

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I love your sense of humor...always just a little prickly....
I chuckled and it made my day, It's been a rough week.
 
beth

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Tattoos is really an interesting feature of human nature. We have been tattooing ourselves since we started wearing loincloths. Its interesting to speculate why we do.
 
flower

flower

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Originally Posted by Beth http:///t/324650/tattoos-on-your-doctor-or-lawyer/60#post_3532970
Tattoos is really an interesting feature of human nature. We have been tattooing ourselves since we started wearing loincloths. Its interesting to speculate why we do.

It's against my religion or I would...I love art, and some of the tattoos are really pretty and well done. I think it's a form of self expression, a way for others to you the way you want to be seen, sadly, often it has the opposite effect. My daughter had to wear a big bandage over her leg tattoo at work. She worked with the elderly, and believe me, they don't like seeing tattoos (Hers was a horse with wings) and it upset them. So no matter how much self expression, you still have to live in this world with others, and be able to work.
 
phixer

phixer

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Holy crap! these freaks would scare the barnicles off a crabs *ss. Use to be you had to go to a circus freak show to see something like this. Kind of sad in a way because someone must really hate the way they look to go to those extremes. Yeah Im biased and folks should also be more tolerant of us who find it disgusting. Naaasssteee.
 
darthtang aw

darthtang aw

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Holy crap!  these freaks would scare the barnicles off a crabs *ss.  Use to be you had to go to a circus freak show to see something like this.  Kind of sad in a way because someone must really hate the way they look to go to those extremes.   Yeah Im biased and folks should also be more tolerant of us who find it disgusting.  Naaasssteee.
Don't worry, this tattooed Adonis god is tolerant of your intolerance and closed mindedness.
Darth (my ego needed fed) tang
 
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