ranty rant

[sherrif_topato]

Now that I have my ABN and professional indemnity insurance (hoorah!) I had a job interview today to become an independent contractor for an EAP service. This was pretty exciting, but for some reason I have held off telling people because I am concerned I will get all excited and not get the job

Comments

[_ariadne_]

I totally know that feeling. 'Sorry, you'll need to be more normal/conform/repress your personality to work here'. Everyone thinks you change your hair colour in order to stand out and make a statement, rather than because it feels more like you to do so.

[sherrif_topato]

Yes, thankyou! It's like people go "you couldn't actually like being that way! you must be doing it for attention". grrrr.

It taps into a deeper crankiness I have about society encouraging people to judge others by how they/their body looks and not by what they can do. Bah!

[tin_foil_hat]

Oh I hear ya there.

I was actually very surprised when I had brown hair and happened to glimpse my reflection in the mirror whilst talking to someone and realised that it was ME in there. Brown hair =/= me.

[sherrif_topato]

yes, you with brown hair = crazy town.

[bizwac]

I concur. I will always be a body-modded person inside and I will feel shit if I don't express who I am.

And I did feel shit when I started my job and died my hair black and took out my piercings. I felt slightly more like me when I put the piercings back in. And when I redyed my hair pretty colours, my mood lifted a hell of a lot.

People don't tell someone who wants a sex change "it's a lifestyle choice, so just live with the body you've been given".
Well they do, but they shouldn't.

It's just bullshit. I wonder how your conservative CEOs would react if you were just completely bald.