Hey guys I was just wondering if a wrist tattoo could be a bad thing when getting a job.
For example: You have a univercity diploma and your wrist tat is too big to cover it up with a watch, you get a job at a very high-placed enterprise and you can’t show your ink.
Do all the jobs that require such ink-hiding can be simply fulfilled with a jacket or a long-sleeve tee ? Or do you think just having the ink in the first place is dangerous ?
Thanks a lot !
Allan
As long as you are able to cover it up 100% with a long sleeve shirt, then I don’t forsee any issues. Keep in mind that you may be stuck wearing long sleeves every day for the rest of your work life though, regardless of weather. Then again, short sleeves never look very professional anyway.
For example: You have a univercity diploma
What is an univercity diploma? I hope you were not a English major.
Most Corporations will not care or even know when you have it covered by your long sleeve shirt.
The wrist is usually a pretty feminine place for a tattoo. And by the name Allan I bet you have a ball sack.
This, in my personal opinion.
I have my first ink on the outside of my lower leg, so it’s very easily coverable unless I’m in shorts which wouldn’t look very professional anyway.
My next ink will be upper arms, it wouldn’t suit me personally to have any ink that I couldn’t very easily cover at work.
In some hot climates short shirt sleeves are acceptable in summer. In most cooler climates or where I live it still gets up to 110 degrees in summer, short sleeves are not acceptable except on Fridays (casual day). I’m a professional in a large corporate. One guy at work has a wrist tattoo and no one cares, however I wouldn’t push my luck with half sleeves. Attitudes are changing but very slowly, I wouldn’t bet they will change that much.
If you want to get a tattoo and you want to work in a professional environment be prepared to cover it up whilst at work.
The way I look at it 6 months of the year it’s long sleeves on casual Friday (the other 6 months everyone is as it’s to cold) is a small price to pay.
However geographic location may change this for others and there is a chance if you live in a cool climate you move to a warmer one, the tattoo won’t vanish.
Think carefully but I think there are many 10’s of millions in professionals in corporate attire with ink lurking beneath around the world, so you are not going to be the only one. Me personally I’m starting plans to go from half to full sleeves.
It really depends on where you work. For me, 90% of my time at work is spent in a secure facility. I wear shorts or jeans and a shirt or hoodie. No one cares what I wear or if I have tattoos. However, on occasion, I have to train a group of teachers, or meet with state education officials. At that point, I dress professionally, and I do tend to wear long sleeves. (I don’t have ink on my wrists, per se, but on the inside of both forearms.)
There are some employment venues in which tattoos are still considered unprofessional or in poor taste, but the more modern times evolve, the more they are really ignored or condoned.
If you have any doubts, though, I’d consider the forearm instead, where longer sleeves would cover 100% of the ink.
I’m from the UK got a wrist tattoo which work don’t care about half sleeve that is covered by a shirt apart from on dress down Fridays.
Before booking in to get my forearm done out of courtesy I thought I would ask the manager if I would have to keep my sleeves rolled down so it was out of sight.
Her reply was use common sense, if I have to go to a managers meeting roll them down the rest of the time do what you want. And her exact words, its against your human rights for me to stop you or hold it against you.
I work for a government agency.
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