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Originally Posted by Daniel_
I left college with a long ponytail, and it didn't interfere with my getting a job (drug comapny laboratory).
That said, within six months of cutting it short, I was promoted twice and given a really good one year secondment...
Not saying that they were linked, but it seemed like it at the time.  |
They're definitely linked.
I got a fine job with a ponytail. I became a Senior Web Developer with a ponytail down to my waist.
Then I cut my hair, and within a couple months I was Executive Vice President, had a seat on the Board of Directors, and was running the company while my boss spent a year traveling in Australia.
It's not that it
should be this way, but it
is this way. You wear your hair long (or any number of other affectations) and people know the whole deal with you the first instant they look at you, and they don't look any further. And I know, speaking only for myself, I used that automatic-knowing about myself to keep myself small and in a safe little box. Getting rid of my hair was a huge breakthrough for me, because suddenly people were actually LOOKING at me, and I had to BE something.