Your hair and profession

I''m a bank manager and I have tailbone length hair

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!)

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!

Gollan wrote: 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

Hasn´t leadership in many workplaces matured over the years about this? I think many more people are aware now that creativity is a state of mind that affects all one´s life, and being more creative in one way often promotes creativity in others. And higher awareness and tolerance always seem to go hand in hand.

I also think that it´s harder to tell mature (most people in Sweden these days are over 25 when they go looking for their first job), highly educated people how to wear their hair or anything else. Chances are, they´ll look for work elsewhere.

I think many of our preconceptions are ones that we grew up with. Society, at least in my end of the world, was a lot less forgiving and allowing just 20 years ago. And a lot of times our preconceptions seem to be confirmed, aren´t they? But, as Dave points out, one can never really know.

In my town, I find that long hair is most often found on students (young girls), male and female musicians (there´s a fifty-something nationally famous singer in Piteå who´s had classic length all her life), and immigrant ladies from say Turkey and other muslim cultures. Waist length is really, really rare.

Me, I´m a struggling writer (with a bachelor in systems analysis and history), making ends meet by working in newspaper delivery. And my hair is growing long long long...

I'm a graduate student in biochemistry working on my PhD, and I wouldn't mind finding out how long my hair grows naturally.

But dance is another passion of mine, even though I have only danced for the past year, and dancers of the Hawaiian tradition (hula) tend to have long hair.

I'm a lawyer and my hair is 41" long. I can nearly sit on my hair.

Anne-Loes

I'm a hotel desk clerk, but I also dance. Long hair is nice because you can pull it off your face. :)

Let's see if this works. My hairstyle seems influenced by my profession, or perhaps it was the other way around.

I 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?

Gormlaith

I'm a Pisces, and I wear my hair short.
I don't think your astrology sign determines how you wear your hair or what kind of hair you like.
Personally I like both long and short hair on men and women.

Hey Gollan, captaining (and swashbuckling!) would be fun and I'll think about that for a second career, though I doubt I could pull off the Captain Jack Sparrow look from Pirates of the Caribbean. Although, it certainly sounds easier than my current job.

Captain Gormlaith