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Hello, I was wondering. Seeing how a good many other men look oddly upon men who grow their hair long I was wondering what jobs do you fellows have that allows you to have long hair? I am looking for a job as well so thios question can help give me a good idea on what job would allow me to have long hair :) thanks in advance ^_^
I work at Lowe's Home Improvement. Just a college job, but they give no problems with long hair at all. I also worked at a printing store (signs, books, posters) and I was one of many longhairs there.
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clayton
I work in an I.T. department for a school system. So far no ones hassled me about my hair.
It's probably different everywhere.
I've seen a couple guys working at the local Target who have shoulder-length hair, and some at the home improvement places with similar and longer hair. When I worked at Blockbuster, one of the assistant managers had waist-length hair that he kept tied back and braided while working, and no one ever complained.
Hi! I own my own business(a ballroom dance studio), so I don't have to worry about a boss telling me to cut my hair.
Del
I worked for a publishing company for a while, and there were some nice manes on a couple of the guys on the editorial floor.
No longhairs at the personal training job. The gym had some strict policies about appearance, so that's probably why.
Mouse
Hi Ziggy, well I work for a large comapany and do Commercial art(graphic Design) and develop there corporate websites. I also do work on the side doing websites and graphics. I work with the public at time marketing and have even spoken at conferences about ym work and have never had anyone ever say anything negatively about my hair and it is about mid back or below. Good luck in your search and feel free to contact me if you want to discuss more. (Oh my wife isn't that thrilled) LOL Take care
Let me add some fuel for thought for everyone. There is always going to be a person in some work environment that will hassle someone about there hair. I do think though that being well groomed longhair or not and most importantly being dressed appropriately goes a lot farther in your work or looking for work then the fact you might have long hair. I usually dress nice but casual, but as I said when speaking at conferences of with the public I don’t hesitate to get out the nice shoes, pants and the nice black sport coat to look the part. I just feel dressing well or correctly for what your doing gives you more creditability and a better first impression at first glance. It does more for you then long hair will ever take away from that. Just a though, take care
1) Bartender at a restaurant that doesn't have a hair policy
2) MARINE BIOLOGIST!!! (or any other position in research/academia)
Truthfully, the only jobs where they won't let you have long hair are jobs where you wear a uniform, like the military and the police, and even in those fields there are exceptions (e.g. the Swedish armed forces and the NYPD allow guys to have long hair, although the latter require a bun!).
I've never had an employer tell me I had to cut my hair, although there were probably jobs I interviewed for and didn't get because I have long hair, but it's impossible to ever find out. It does seem like if you have long hair you may need to go to more interviews before you land a job, but we have people here who have all kinds of jobs.
To be frank, guys here who have said they were told in the interview to cut their hair have all been interviewing for low-level retail jobs, and for every store that bans long hair, there are others that don't. For example, Walmart is probably a bad place to work, but they do allow long hair.
Again, if I think about posts from guys who were told to cut their hair after being hired, they seem to have all worked in banking. OTOH, I have actually seen male bank tellers with hair as long as waist length. Maybe when they work their way up to a more senior position they get told to get a hair cut? Maybe it just depends which bank it is?
There again, I beleive we had one poster who worked for UPS and was told to cut his hair. If I remember right, he moved there from the post office to get more wages, but the post office never bothered him about his hair. There's a good chance that FedEx wouldn't have done either, or if not them, then some other delivery company would have been OK. I think that blew over when his boss left anyway.
I have worked in engineering and in patent law, if you want to know the particular fields. It's generally reckonned by most people that long hair is more accepted in technical fields, and patent law is every bit as technical as being an engineer. Granted, I've come across more long haired engineers and very few long haired patent lawyers, but greater than zero.
You say you are looking for a job, but not what your qualifications are? That makes it hard to advise. Generally, if you have more qualifications you will have less trouble. In low level jobs they figure you are easily replaced, so they often have all kinds of crazy rules, not just about hair. OTOH, the good news is that those kind of employers are easily replaced too, so finding a similar job where they don't care about your hair is not as hard as most people think.
Geologist, Archeologist, Driller, Miner, any field work...
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Klingon Warrior, Professor at the School of Wizardry, Jedi Master..
Hello everyone,
I work at I.T. at a university, and there are lots of longhairs where I work, and especially in the Earth Sciences dept. and the Atmospheric Sciences dept.
Have a nice day,
Georges in Montreal.
Ditto I work in IT to and no issues..:-)
John.B
I work in a supermarket in Madison WI (a liberal college town)
so no problems with longhair, I'm the overnight manager as well. Many employers have a dress code that mentions hair to be above the collar but not all of them enforce it. In years past I had job interviews that went well until they said I had to cut my hair and I said no and walked away.
Kevin
I am an engineer. There aren't too many other engineers where I work with long hair but I don't get hassled about it by most co-workers or my supervisor. As with most employers, your job performance speaks volumes above your appearance, if it is an issue to others.
b.j.
Hi Ziggy,
I am a chemist who works in a lab that is responsible for testing for the presence of unwanted chemicals in food and fish. Although I am the ONLY guy in a workforce of more than 50 who has long hair, I have no problems to speak of, apart from a little good-natured teasing now and then. (Another co-worker had STARTED to grow a great head of hair last summer, but sadly he cut it after about 7 months growth when the awkward phase got to him.)
David
I'm a pipe organ technician and work for a good friend of mine who owns the company. He personally doesn't care for long hair but firmly believes in personal freedom. I always tail my hair at work because 1) it looks more professional when working in churches and theaters and 2) it would definitely be in the way too much if I didn't.
--Rick
Most of the construction trades have long haired people working in some form or fashion.
I am sysadmin at a publishing house that produces several entertainment-related magazines. There are several other longhairs on my floor, so nobody cares about it. The dress code is pretty relaxed as well - jeans and t-shirts are common.
One day my hair tie broke and I didn't have another one, so that my hair was loose. Nwxt day a co-worker, seeing me with tied hair, joked: "So yesterday was your loose-hair day, wasn't it". I replied "It looks like for you every day is a loose-hair day". The guy normally shaves his head, but on that day he had day-old stubs.
A Linux Longhaur
I know this is off the subject a little but most guys here do I.T as a profession or are at least into it. Anyone agree with this trend? Anyway you should be able to get jobs practically anywhere. The places where you might get some trouble are private businesses where the boss decides who he/she hires
Any technical fields such as engineering, computer science or research. I am a field servic technician who repairs semi-conductor tools and I have long hair. Our site manager also has long hair as well! When I walked in for the interview he jokingly said "We don't hire people with long hair! We both still laugh about this at holiday parties.
Darrin
I am an accountant working for a government company (Transport for London) so no one really cares about dress code. I have mid back length hair ponytailed everyday and no one has made any objections so far.
Start your own business! :-)
I had it with the corporate life so I started my own company. Now no one tells me I have to cut my hair. If I feel like it is detracting customers I might cut it, but that hasn't happened AFAIK.
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Splat
I agree with you, Splat. I worked in IT in the Bay Area for about 10 years until I completely burned out on the field and the Corporate atmosphere in 2002. The Bay Area is notorious for burning High Tech workers to a crisp. "Fried to the board" we used to say. Or, jokingly say that once the silicon valley killed us we would all have "pentium inside" stickers slapped on our coffin's...LOL. Since kicking that life to the curb, I've been my own boss doing various different things...mainly glass blowing making production pieces for a distributor in another state as well as selling to local shops and people on the street. I work out of my garage (see pic). The art realm is definitely longhair friendly. But, the main thing is...I'm the boss. And company policy for all employee's (which is just me) is mandatory long hair. So you see, I have no choice in the matter ;-)
Kudos to you for escaping the corporate doldrums. I'm not where I want to be yet, but a couple years ago I fled from cube-land and haven't looked back since. I just wasn't happy with my life resembling the movie Office Space so much. Since then I've worked as a personal trainer, now I'm in retail, and I'm taking classes at a community college in hopes of working in the natural resources field someday. It's been a paycut, but the benefits are priceless.
And I'm glad you and the boss can agree on your hair length, LOL!
Mouse
I work for West Marine as an assistant manager to one of their stores. During the awkward phase I wore a hat and tied the back up. Now I just keep it neat and tied back and I havn't gotten any complaints from anyone so far (even the VPs, as one loves to pop in my store unexpectedly, and often) The boating industry has TONS of longhairs in it, I would say nearly 1/4th of my customer base have at least shoulder length hair.