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.
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.