Have Tattoos? Well … Study Says: Lower Your Professional Expectations

Heartland Institute ^ | 10/8/17 | Clifford F. Thies

[Redmen4ever]

Have a tattoo? If the answer is “yes,” it’s more likely you’re unemployed or completely out of the labor force. On average, your income is lower. You’re more probably a smoker, use illegal drugs, engage in risky sexual behavior, have been a victim of crime, and have been incarcerated for committing crime yourself.

[Professional Engineer]

It would seem reading the entire article would help before posting.

Examining both labor force participation and earnings, they find that the contribution of being tattooed becomes statistically insignificant when background variables are included in multi-variate analysis.

[P-Marlowe]

I said I would never hire someone with "visible" tattoos.

Where do you draw the line?

If you have any brains at all you have to realize that a tattoo tells everyone a lot about who you are, how you think, and whether or not you have good judgment.

If you are going into a job interview for any position in which you are going to be dealing with the public, then getting a visible tattoo is a good way to make sure you never get the job.

If you are going in for a job as a roughneck then having a tattoo might be helpful. Depends on what it says.

I think a swastika tattoo on your neck would probably put you out of the job market permanently.

Wouldn't you agree?

And if so, then where do you draw the line?

[P-Marlowe]

Your tax dollars at work.

[9YearLurker]

Because I think your experience would be different in a different field and (likely) location. Try making it to partner of a law or accounting firm, or one of various customer-facing fields where visible tattoos would, yes, be more likely problematic.

Equipment design is in manufacturing and generally a back-office sort of job. Quite different.

[from occupied ga]

For a while I worked a couple of blocks from one of the Atlanta parole offices. Whenever I went by I saw quite a selection of tattoos going in and out of there. I’m guessing that they were not the parole officers sporting the “tats.”

[Grampa Dave]

BOL and maybe an answer about tat placements:!

[independentmind]

What about engineers, doctors, lawyers, and accountants?

They are still pretty darn rare in those professions.

[9YearLurker]

Okay, so I actually just read the article.

It says that those with tattoos on average are less intelligent, educated, successful, etc. And it laments that there wasn’t a distinction made between visible and hidden tattoos.

But it actually says that when other correlations (e.g., on intelligence and education) are accounted for, there are not findings that the presence of tattoos independently affect employment.

[Hugh the Scot]

More incorrect assumptions. Project management is very customer-facing, as procurement is to the supplier side.

Absent facial piercings and patently offensive imagery, your hang-ups are more likely to cost you skilled people than my tattoo is to cost me a good opportunity.

[Grampa Dave]

[P-Marlowe]

But stereotyping anyone with a tattoo is a racist way of thinking.

Would you hire a transvestite to babysit your children?

Would you hire a woman who dressed like a hooker to tudor your children?

Would you hire a guy with a Swastika tattoo on his neck to serve dinners at your restaurant?

Tattoos are not a race.

You actually have to spend hard earned money (either yours or the taxpayers) to get a tattoo. This is money well spent on other things.

To me a visible tattoo is a sign of a person with poor judgment.

If that's RACIST, then I guess you will just have to number me with the racists.

If you wouldn't hire a transvetite baby sitter, then does that make you a bigot?

BTW would you feel comfortable if you called a babysitting agency up and they sent some 18 year old with a facial tattoo and nose rings showed up at your door?

Making judgments based on people's choices and actions is not "RACIST". A tattoo is a reflection of someone's actions and choices.

A person with a tattoo WANTS YOU TO MAKE A JUDGMENT ABOUT THEM.

That's why they got the tattoo in the first place.

They are wearing a SIGN!

[GOPJ]

“Tattoo-free” ‘privilege.... Skin without tattoos hints the person is serious, pays taxes, might be responsible OR is afraid of needles and pain..

[Hugh the Scot]

I draw the line at obvious irresponsibility, the same way you believe you do.

Clearly we find it in different locations.

[trisham]

I have a headache. :)

[Hugh the Scot]

Damned if I can figure out why you keep flogging these strawmen.

What’s the difference between throwing everyone with a tattoo in with Nazis and crossdressers, and throwing all Catholics in with pedopile clergy?

[P-Marlowe]

I draw the line at obvious irresponsibility, the same way you believe you do.

Then there is a line, isn't there?

I've been called a "RACIST" because I think tattoos are stupid.

Obviously your "visible" tattoos are not so obnoxious as to render you unemployable, but even you make judgments about people based on their tattoos that you would not make if they didn't have any.

That is the point of this article. A tattoo is a message to the people you meet.

If you have a butterfly on your ankle, that is one thing. If you have a swastika on your neck, then that is another thing.

But the fact of the matter is that when you have a visible tattoo, you are sending a message that you want people to see. It is a sign. It is using your body as a billboard.

If you don't want to be judged then don't advertise your thoughts on your sleeve.

[P-Marlowe]

Even you are “judgmental” about people with tattoos.

See 173.

[trisham]

A person with a tattoo WANTS YOU TO MAKE A JUDGMENT ABOUT THEM.

That's why they got the tattoo in the first place.

They are wearing a SIGN!

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Exactly right.

[Hugh the Scot]

Sure, who said that I didn’t judge people with swastikas on their neck?

I don’t clump anyone who doesn’t into the same class with them to justify my own biases.

[albie]

...”your hanging out with the wrong people, or wrong places”

No doubt, except this restaurant started out with nice well polished young college students and wound up with these dopes. Most good restaurants are run by nut job libs.