In America, though, visible tattoos basically means you can’t work for the government at all. Hell, while trash collection is done by a private company (supported by taxes the gov pays over to them) in my part of Ohio, garbage men aren’t allowed to have them visible because Rumpke Dump’s government contractors hate them.
Freakin garbage men!
To my knowledge, the most lenient branch of our government on tattoos is the military. Get as many as you want, as long as they aren’t Anti-America or can bee seen in dress uniform. Of everyone I know who’s gone into the military (half my friends from HS, and more than a few of my family), only one of them fails to be more tattooed than I am.
Main stream America is Evangelical Christian, and they believe tattoos are evil and show you to have no morel values.
As to the original post, King man, tattoos aren’t completely socially acceptable. The pain, the fact that it makes you in some small way an outlaw, the fact that it’s a deeply personal experience that only a small portion of the populace will understand, it’s all part of the mystic.
Tattooing shows you’re part of an in group, that you’re one of us, not one of them, that you’re part of the club. It shows that in a small way, you reject the over riding culture’s taboo of modifying your God Given Body, and this just drives many people in-freaking-sane.
Having difficulty getting a job is part of the price of being in our club man. It ain’t right, but it’s there. My right arm is engulfed in tattoos, as will my left in a few years, and I know my chances of getting an office job again are pretty much nil.
If you’re that worried about it man, I’d follow follow Matthew’s advice:
Don’t do it, or make sure your job allows long sleeves.
Love. Peace. Metallica.
