It’s not like they're going to hurt your trade-in value. Costly, painful, at once sacred and profane, about the only thing you get to choose for yourself about your body: what's not to like? Plus, so much less awkward when you get in an MRI than sundry and various piercings.
Laser removal's become common and so come down in price over time, which I'd guess is more down to ill-advised tramp stamps and not-as-discreet-as-once-thought ankle tats than it is old gang tattoos. Couple hundred bucks maybe, for a small one?
I don't think I'd ever get one, I don't really find them very attractive either, but it's not my job to tell people they're right or wrong to get them. Just don't get upset when I tell you I'm not into them or the ones on your body if you ask.
I very rarely think that they look appealing (sometimes they look downright unappealing), but I just really don't care what people do with their own bodies. So, I'm more or less indifferent on tattoos, but I myself wouldn't ever get any.
My girlfriend's going to get a tattoo that covers her entire hand. I'm worried that with the tattoo it's going to look like a giant, hairy spider is giving me a spiderjob.
I see it as a sign of poor judgment. Outside of either low skill jobs or highly creative industries, most people don't like visible tattoos. So it's kind of a career limiting move if you want to be in a conservative business or a high end customer service environment. Now hidden tattoos, don't really care, because it's not like anyone sees it.
Be that as it may, at some point that I would speculate to've been in the Nineties, questionable choices to do with tattoos lost that stigma among the young. There was a generational shift toward acceptance of tattoos that cut right across class divisions, at least in the States. I may not travel in the most rarified circles myself, so I couldn't necessarily judge whether this was true, but haven't you noticed tats being barely hidden or worn quite openly where they once wouldn't've been?
In some industry sure. I don't think IT and Stem care, I don't think artistic places care much. On the other hand, if you're looking into a high class service job or a conservative business environment, it's not as acceptable. And while millennials probably don't care as much as boomers, the opinions of boomers matter if the boomers are hiring or if they're the main clients of your service. If you're boomer or older, you don't want your high-service restaurant waitress to have a sleeve. If you're a boomer hiring a CPA, you're probably not picking the one with the tattoos on his arm.
It's not so much a rarified setting, it's about the expectations a person has of the place as well as their ideas about the type of people who have visible tattoos and what they are. I know a guy with sleeves, and while they're cool, if he goes into a corporate office to do bookkeeping or management, he's probably going to have to cover them up. At least in the Midwest, that's not acceptable in offices.
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It’s not like they're going to hurt your trade-in value. Costly, painful, at once sacred and profane, about the only thing you get to choose for yourself about your body: what's not to like? Plus, so much less awkward when you get in an MRI than sundry and various piercings.
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I like my two, and I like some on other people.
Cannot stand tramp stamps. yuck.
Planning a new one - DNR on my chest.
I don't think I'd ever get one, I don't really find them very attractive either, but it's not my job to tell people they're right or wrong to get them. Just don't get upset when I tell you I'm not into them or the ones on your body if you ask.
I very rarely think that they look appealing (sometimes they look downright unappealing), but I just really don't care what people do with their own bodies. So, I'm more or less indifferent on tattoos, but I myself wouldn't ever get any.
My girlfriend's going to get a tattoo that covers her entire hand. I'm worried that with the tattoo it's going to look like a giant, hairy spider is giving me a spiderjob.
I see it as a sign of poor judgment. Outside of either low skill jobs or highly creative industries, most people don't like visible tattoos. So it's kind of a career limiting move if you want to be in a conservative business or a high end customer service environment. Now hidden tattoos, don't really care, because it's not like anyone sees it.
Be that as it may, at some point that I would speculate to've been in the Nineties, questionable choices to do with tattoos lost that stigma among the young. There was a generational shift toward acceptance of tattoos that cut right across class divisions, at least in the States. I may not travel in the most rarified circles myself, so I couldn't necessarily judge whether this was true, but haven't you noticed tats being barely hidden or worn quite openly where they once wouldn't've been?
In some industry sure. I don't think IT and Stem care, I don't think artistic places care much. On the other hand, if you're looking into a high class service job or a conservative business environment, it's not as acceptable. And while millennials probably don't care as much as boomers, the opinions of boomers matter if the boomers are hiring or if they're the main clients of your service. If you're boomer or older, you don't want your high-service restaurant waitress to have a sleeve. If you're a boomer hiring a CPA, you're probably not picking the one with the tattoos on his arm.
It's not so much a rarified setting, it's about the expectations a person has of the place as well as their ideas about the type of people who have visible tattoos and what they are. I know a guy with sleeves, and while they're cool, if he goes into a corporate office to do bookkeeping or management, he's probably going to have to cover them up. At least in the Midwest, that's not acceptable in offices.