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I posted a message earlier about loving long hair on men. What I find interesting is that many of my women friends and associates all like the "corporate" short-haired look on men, a look which usually sends me fleeing, screaming "run away!" "run away!" (but then I usually send corporate men doing the same thing.) I work in a law firm and all of these guys look the same. Not one strand of hair reaches the collars around here. It is a pity that society sends the message that in order to be "professional" and to be taken serious, a man cannot have long hair. Over the years of working in this world, I have been in trouble for looking like a "pirate" and a "gypsy" to which I told them they were welcome to fire me if they wish because I wasn't going to change. I wasn't and was left alone because I'm a good hard worker and know the computers better than most of the secretaries. Perhaps one day I will go to work and there will be one star attorney whose hair will begin to get just a little bit longer and longer, and his reputation will be so sparkling that no one will care how long his hair is.
you work at a law firm?
I'll be starting my first year at law school. I''m trying to grow my hair out. The thing is, I'm afraid i won't get any job offers because of the length of my hair(by the time i graduate, it'll be long) . My question for you is,
is this gonna be a problem? I mean, do you think it'll be a big enough problem for me to seriously give it a thought? and where do you work?
Unfortunately, I don't know any long-haired lawyers in any of the firms I've work. A pity, although we did have a long-haired word processor. But I am positive there are some "haired" (my own little def of men with hair growing below the shoulders =o) ) law firm professionals out there. Also, the beauty of law school is that there are many professions you can easily go into if you decide not to be a lawyer. I know a few men (unfortunately, unhaired) who started their own companies, not wanting to be couped up in a stuffy law practice.
Good luck.
P.S. I work in Irvine, California.
Hey Chaeya,
Consider going to work for criminal defense lawyers. In order to make their clients look better, it has been noticed that some of them resort to the hippie look themselves.
Although I'm an engineer myself, I do know a little bit about lawyers. I often borrow a shark fin from a friend of mine when I need to look "threatening."
I let the hair grow, and did find that it has become a pain to be taken quite as seriously. However, there are those cases when it pays spectacularly to look a bit different. On this point I am not kidding. Anyway, I like the hair and I'll put up with the crap to keep it.
In any case, it seems to me that law would be the ideal career for a longhair. Here in Seattle we have had quite a few very prominent lawyers who had very long hair. Of course, they were prominent because they were good at causing trouble, and had the smarts to get the Court of Appeals to agree with them.
Let's face it. People who push society forward, in the direction of progress, are rather outside the dominant paradigm. If you're going to piss off Caesar, you might as well have long hair.
Anyway, try the public defenders. The tax attorneys all like buzzcuts. You'll have more fun with the outlaws.