Your hair and profession
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Topic: Your hair and profession
Posted By: Erinlynn
Subject: Your hair and profession
Date Posted: Sep 3, 2003 at 6:31am
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In another thread we were discussing that you can tell what major a person has by thier hair. I extended this into telling what type of job a person has by thier hair. i thought we all might say what we do and our hair style...or if youve noticed certain hairstyles going with certain jobs. For example so far I feel that: Walmart/grocery store workers: many with really long hair if they are older, then of course there are the highschoolers with regular highschool hair. Artists tend to have longer hair. Im a biologist with long hair (atypical) but im also an artist (typical). Any thoughts? |
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Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: Sep 3, 2003 at 6:31am
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In another thread we were discussing that you can tell what major a person has by thier hair. I extended this into telling what type of job a person has by thier hair. i thought we all might say what we do and our hair style...or if youve noticed certain hairstyles going with certain jobs. For example so far I feel that: Walmart/grocery store workers: many with really long hair if they are older, then of course there are the highschoolers with regular highschool hair. Artists tend to have longer hair. Im a biologist with long hair (atypical) but im also an artist (typical). Any thoughts? |
Posted By: Gollan
Date Posted: Sep 3, 2003 at 4:15pm
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I'm an engineer and I'm in the process of growing tailbone length(?!) hair. In my occupation the rule is "anything goes" though the true long-hair is a bit of a rarity. There was a time when engineers were subject to dress and appearance codes (think white shirts and black pants at NASA and IBM in the 1960s). But engineering is an odd process in that you are trying to get creativity out of people who are inclined toward precision and certainty. Telling such people what to wear and how to look when they show up for work doesn't foster that "wild and crazy" streak that produces things like the Internet, MRI machines, TV remote controls, and the George Foreman grill. A semi-related anecdote: My elderly dad recently told me that I should get a haircut, explaining that "people will think you're a musician". That got me thinking. If people think I'm a musician will I get better or worse treatment than if they think I'm a computer engineer :D? |
Posted By: Debbie
Date Posted: Sep 3, 2003 at 4:25pm
| I wear my hair in a 1/4 inch buzzcut and I am a stay at home wife. (With 2 grown boys still at home!) % ic adp` - ,(b` $( b !( ,,,--% -,--,Bb '$ |
Posted By: enfys
Date Posted: Sep 3, 2003 at 5:45pm
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I'm a student in high school The British system is different- it goes 4-7years - Infant school 7-11years - Junior school 11-16years - High school 16-18years - College 18->years - University I'm a soon to be art student, who wants to be, and has a very good chance of (according to my teachers) becoming a famous artist, at least in Wales! Wa-hey!  My hair is 32" and growing all the time! I also have a very short body length and long legs. My hair would appear shorter on a tall person, obv., but I can nearly sit on it [off topic, sorry. Does sitting on hair damage it? Friction and such like] $- P cn`dp0% 00BB .(4`p /.%%%,-)! !!%,!,`" !, |
Posted By: DaveDecker
Date Posted: Sep 3, 2003 at 8:55pm
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I think it is difficult if not nearly impossible to discern a person's occupation (or major field of study, if in college or university) based on their hairstyle. Even clothes don't tell that much. Sure, there are obvious uniforms worn by those in certain careers, but with some hair and clothing styles you just cannot tell what a person does for a living. If all you knew of me was what you saw in a picture of me, wearing jeans and t-shirt, long hair flowing... would you guess that I work in a professional capacity in an office for a large corporation? Probably not. Gollan, I hear you. I work in a career which requires both precision and creativity. Plenty of challenges to keep the mind active.  (And I know something about being an engineer for IBM  ). You made me laugh with the "musician-or-engineer" comment. Hmm... something to consider.Another fun thread of discussion! 
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Posted By: Erinlynn
Date Posted: Sep 4, 2003 at 7:16am
| My dads an engineer with a goatee. He used to have long hair too...but its short and he lost the top half of it now =) |
Posted By: Viktoria
Date Posted: Sep 4, 2003 at 5:20pm
Posted By: Benji the Sausage Date Posted: Sep 4, 2003 at 7:58pm
Posted By: papillon_purple Date Posted: Sep 4, 2003 at 8:27pm
Posted By: Viktoria Date Posted: Sep 7, 2003 at 12:46pm
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wear a simple braid behind each ear. As I think about it, I am styled more like the archetype of my underlings than I am like the others at my level. Anybody want to try to guess what I do? 
Although, it certainly sounds easier than my current job.