Y'oughtta see the circus acts who applied for jobs when I worked @ Sears a few years back.

I see circus acts all the time at where I work. They even got a web site called, People Of Walmart.

most of the time people get piercings because it makes them happy? stuff doesn't always have to be for other people yknow =o

Personally a piercing is something that wouldn't make me happy nor do I find it attractive, but the reason why I drew it was because of comments that I heard today. That old Hillbilly had the nerve to say what many others were thinking.

actually you can find jobs looking like that

though you shouldn't expect them to be glorious or wildly popular. usually its stuff that has you wearing a jumpsuit. mechanic, janitor, plumber... or you know, stuff in the scene like tattoo artist or something *shrugs*

aaanyways, long story short, yes you can find jobs like that, though you are far more limited in your options

There are those who actually don't want to find jobs that actually look like that.

there are those who don't want to find jobs who look like normal people too

So true, it doesn't fit in to the going to be a 4am, and waking up at 4pm schedule.

no what pisses me off the most is that these idiots feel like they are ENTITLED to a job.. even with the way they look. Really? Someone HAS to hire you at a job that make $15 to $20 an hour looking like that? Yeah... show me someone like that and that gets a job.. and i'll show you someone that is gonna be six feet under when I am done. I am busting my ass for $10.50 an hour and if you can't bust yer ass.. you don't deserve a fucking job in the first place.

Heh... I go on job interviews & give the "earn money, not get paid" speech, and I explain the difference between the two. Most interviewers don't have any idea how to respond, but I've gotten every job I've used it on.

Worse yet, there are those that feel that they are entitled to the money that we make at our jobs. And the government just hands it to them.

I think we do that so they don't come and take our stuff. If they were getting nothing, what would stop them? Yes, yes - your gun, but they would still try. Small price to pay for peace and quiet.

Fear the leeches, I guess...

I often thought about that, but what needs to really happen is for the good people to step up and say that enough is enough. Instead we just hand out money so they could sit on their asses watching youtube, when they could be out cleaning up bar-ditches, and painting fences.

I don't know what it's like out where you live, but things have started to get pretty bad out this way when it comes to breaking. You might come home one day to find all the copper wiring stripped from your house. You would think that the meph-heads would have enough since not to rip off the electrical wire to the emergency relay station.

Isn't meth heads a different subject than welfare abusers?

I thought that the subject slipped into people breaking into other peoples property.

Around here, there are quite a bit of welfare abusers who are also tied up into drugs. So I was glad to hear that they are new working on a program where they will start testing them before they get their mailbox money.

You can take piercings out and cover tattoos with make up you know.

tattoos are easy to hide unless on the face like this one person that I know that has them running across their eyes. Piercings are easy to remove, but I don't know if they can handle loosing the blue hair.

There are those that just don't take life seriously, and expect others to take care of them.

You sound like such a grumpy old man right now. X3
Watching fox news and yelling at kids to get off your lawn.

Someday you too will get older, and /or old. I think the first sign of it is when you say, " what the hell is that crap that the kids are listening to these days." Trust me, it will come. With age, you will start to see things differently, and then you will catch yourself wishing you would have done things differently.

Well try focusing on positive things in life. Or at least discuss issue from the positive direction (saying X is good rather than Y is bad). At least you won't sound grumpy.

I wasn't grumpy at all, but you did give me something to think and right about for a future posting. I'll admit I'm about 30 years older than you, and that I come from a very conservative family. When I was your again I was one who disagreed with many who were my age now back then. I guess what made me grow up a lot was having four of my boys killed with in a month's time by a complete stranger that had no value on life. They were there one day, and the next thing you know, they were gone never to be seen again. I know they were only deer, but to me they were like my children, with the oldest one being a part of my life for 14 years, and the way that it was done was pretty brutal. I swear that someday I will get even with that guy, but right now he is in prison.

Sorry this is the one year mark.

*hugs*

This is funny. Reminds me of time at a former job I worked where we worked in a clean room environment. Part of the protocol for it was that piercings had to be covered. Anyways we got a temp in one time that had so much shit punched through her face, when she covered it all up all you could see was her eyes. She had to pull a hairnet all the way down to her eyelids and around her neck, and wear a beard cover to cover her lower face.

The one that annoys me the most is tongue piercings, especially if I'm going some place to eat and the person serving me has one. It kills my appetite to have to look at it and annoys me if they can barely be understood because of this huge hunk of metal stuck through their tongue.

I wonder if they think that they look sexy? To me, it's nasty. The drawing was based after several that I have seen in real life.

BTW, I have nothing against tattoos, but usually the ones with all the face crap usually also have them.

The Monster Drink tattoo is perfect.

I can't figure out the monster thing. I guess because I'm old I should get the Folgers logo tattoo on my arm. I guess real old people would get the Denny's logo.

Haha. You said it, friend.

I DOUBT they care what anyone thinks. IN FACT, I think that's why they get piercings and tattoos. And, of course, people in glass houses should not be throwing rocks, my friend...

For the most part, you are right that they don't care. As for glass houses, no one never complained about how I did drawings about nasty smelling rednecks, fat lazy trailer trash in electronic shopping carts with there asses hanging over the sides, or spoils rotten frat brat rah-rahs driving the latest and greatest SUVs that their mummy and dadty buys for them. Do something about piercing and tattoos mixed together, everyone starts to loose their minds. Other than trying to make some extra money off my art, I also use it to vent, and distress.

I had a blast drawing Ma'Vet, who is still a character in development for a story that I'm working on. First appearances was here.http://www.furaffinity.net/full/6127124/ which was based after something that was true. I decided to give here a full ear back. Husband is Lossen. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6399930/

I just mean, an employer might say the same thing about furries as you are saying about tattooed people.

An employer doesn't need to know that one is a furry unless one wants to take a chance of loosing his job by being open to his boss about it. A few found out about me being a furry because a disgruntled fan-boy was trying to get me fired. Needles to say it backed fired badly in his face to the point he was basically kicked off the property.

As for people with tattoos, I don't have a problem with them. Some of my best hands has them, and they thought on what I drew was amusing. "Some of my workers are on my friends list." At times I have thought about getting one of my logo, but I don't do needles.

My crew is very diversify, from young, old, skinny, fat, gay, straight, flaming, married, singled, x-doper, toothless, balled, long hair hippy, slow, educated, tats, caveman, redneck, and different races. I'm proud even though we are all different that we all really get along well.

(Chuckles)
As someone who has facial piercings and tattoos, I will speak from experience.

While at one point I was whiling to take my stuff out, cut my hair, shave off my 8 inch goatee, and wear long sleeves shirts in order to get a good paying job, I was burned once and vowed never to change who i am for someone else...regardless of what it was worth.
I was once offered a job, if I did everything to make myself normal...so...I did...I cut everything off, cleaned up and 2 hours later, I got a phone call telling me that they went with someone else even though I signed all the paper work. I felt so bad, I hated the fact that in order to please someone else, i had to change, and when i did and I was told never mind, it proved that regardless of what you look like, it doesn't matter.

No amount of cash is worth changing to be who someone else wants you to be, or the idea of what "society" find acceptable. As older generations die out, so do the ideas of "taboo" and what is "normal" as its personal opinion.

I've worked for some pretty big companies, I've worked some pretty high up positions,..but i've also literaly sholved dog shit, I've cleaned puplic toliets, worked at gas stations..but I've always worn my 4 gauge septum ring, my 1/2 inch lobe tunnels and the 8 other 14 gauge rings in my ears proudly. I let my goatee grow and I walk like I own the place, because I know...where are everyone else dresses to blend in, Im dressed comfortable in my surroundings.

Ive proven myself time an time again that beyond the way I look, I am a valued person.

I'm not allowed to say where I work now, but I still look like me, tattoos and metal and I'm very very....very well paid, and well respected.

I've encouraged others to consider what they have done to themselves and why they did it, talking about their futures and what they will face being "modified"

I've always said, those who do not approach me because of the way I look, I've never wanted around anyway, those who can see past everything...have become some of the best people I've ever met.