(obvious) tattoos?

[The Sum of Awe]

Well when I got hired the asked to see if I had any tattoos and what they are.

Thats why the best thing to do, is to just get it and then "pretty it up" with other meaningful yet distracting symbols.

Fair enough

 

[jasonwill2]

Also, you know that a tattoo of a geometric shape doesn't retain it's geometry on skin that stretches, or has something bumpy and moveable underneath it like a joint, right? My tattoo artist refuses to put geometric shapes on anything other than flat skin like your chest or side of upper arm. I'd say that warping of a pentagram removes the geometric properties of the thing, which are the whole point of its significance.

Well to a degree, ya. I've drawn many a time an inverted pentagram on the back of my left hand and a normal one on my right and the letters "satanist" across my fingers. I've noticed the warping but it's never a huge issue once I get the damned circle down.

Anyway, I've started to reconsider it and how it would be done. I'm not doing "Satanist" across my fingers to say the least.

 

[1137]

Well to a degree, ya. I've drawn many a time an inverted pentagram on the back of my left hand and a normal one on my right and the letters "satanist" across my fingers. I've noticed the warping but it's never a huge issue once I get the damned circle down.

Anyway, I've started to reconsider it and how it would be done. I'm not doing "Satanist" across my fingers to say the least.

Consider the fact that as you age you will get more wrinkles and... well... expand.

 

[mycorrhiza]

Even though it reflects your belief, getting Satanist tattoos on your hands will most likely bar you from working in most places in the USA.

So I'd recommend choosing a more subtle location, that can be covered up. Upper arm, or chest, as suggested earlier are good alternatives.

 

[jasonwill2]

Even though it reflects your belief, getting Satanist tattoos on your hands will most likely bar you from working in most places in the USA.

So I'd recommend choosing a more subtle location, that can be covered up. Upper arm, or chest, as suggested earlier are good alternatives.

And yet people can tattoo Jesus everywhere and no one so much as winces.

Society is full of such hypocrisy; sometimes I wish America would just be American. I mean, the first amendment after all! After the Federalists wrote the new Constitution that was the FIRST amendment in the Bill of Rights! I'm pretty sure that indicates how important it was.

 

[Mindmaster]

And yet people can tattoo Jesus everywhere and no one so much as winces.

Society is full of such hypocrisy; sometimes I wish America would just be American. I mean, the first amendment after all! After the Federalists wrote the new Constitution that was the FIRST amendment in the Bill of Rights! I'm pretty sure that indicates how important it was.

My concern wasn't of the topic of your tattoo, but rather the negative connotations of locations. Hands, face, head, neck, etc... Just say, "Thug".. Now if you are a thug and that helps you earn well hey it'll work for you... If not then I suggest putting them in cover spots. My wife does tattoos for a living, and I am merely repeating her advice to some extent. It matters very little what you get -- people not familiar with your topics really know next to nothing about them and don't care. Most people cannot be bothered to think about what you have as much as where you have it, and those that take the time to inspect them you will find are rather tolerant people not easily offended. I have a buddy who has Satanic stuff up and down his arms including his hands, and I know for a fact that he will be doing never doing any work but ******** jobs. If you run your own company well hey -- do whatever you want... it's not costing you a job..

 

[HerDotness]

I'd hold off until you're certain what you want to pursue as a career since you're in college.

My supervisor in the bookstore where I used to work has a gorgeous tattoo of Ganesha that extends from her left wrist to her shoulder and an equally big Goddess one on her other arm. She decided midway through college that she wanted to become a school music teacher and learned just before she was to get into teacher training that she would have to wear long sleeves throughout her three months of practice teaching. She was also cautioned that these pretty innocent images could affect her ability to get hired unless she was willing to wear long sleeves all the time.

This was about five years ago, and I just heard from her recently that she never considered that she'd ever want to get into such a conventional career as teaching and now regrets having the tattoos. She said she's learned that even with them almost entirely covered, she may not be very employable because it's difficult to find sleeves that cover both entirely since bits of each extend onto the backs of her hands.

Some very desirable employers can be much more conventional than you might think when it comes to the image they want their employees to project. Also, many people change careers altogether two or three times during their years of employment today...something else to consider.

Personally, I'd get them where they're easily concealed, and then you can have whatever design you wish.

 

[jasonwill2]

I'd hold off until you're certain what you want to pursue as a career since you're in college.

My supervisor in the bookstore where I used to work has a gorgeous tattoo of Ganesha that extends from her left wrist to her shoulder and an equally big Goddess one on her other arm. She decided midway through college that she wanted to become a school music teacher and learned just before she was to get into teacher training that she would have to wear long sleeves throughout her three months of practice teaching. She was also cautioned that these pretty innocent images could affect her ability to get hired unless she was willing to wear long sleeves all the time.

This was about five years ago, and I just heard from her recently that she never considered that she'd ever want to get into such a conventional career as teaching and now regrets having the tattoos. She said she's learned that even with them almost entirely covered, she may not be very employable because it's difficult to find sleeves that cover both entirely since bits of each extend onto the backs of her hands.

Some very desirable employers can be much more conventional than you might think when it comes to the image they want their employees to project. Also, many people change careers altogether two or three times during their years of employment today...something else to consider.

Personally, I'd get them where they're easily concealed, and then you can have whatever design you wish.

That's something to consider. But just for your knowledge, I'm not in collage yet.

 

[HerDotness]

That's something to consider. But just for your knowledge, I'm not in collage yet.

Ooops! Sorry...my error. I thought you said you were. All the more reason to think this through carefully, then.

I think back sometimes to things I did, people I thought cool, etc. when I was in college and now really wish I'd had more sense.

Sure, we're all entitled to make mistakes (hindsight being 20/20), but I think you've done something valuable by asking for people's thinking on this so you have lots of different perspectives to consider. Wish I'd had as much sense and had asked some older friends what they thought of some things I decided on my own to do that not much afterward I realized were waaay not-smart.

 

[jasonwill2]

Ooops! Sorry...my error. I thought you said you were. All the more reason to think this through carefully, then.

I think back sometimes to things I did, people I thought cool, etc. when I was in college and now really wish I'd had more sense.

Sure, we're all entitled to make mistakes (hindsight being 20/20), but I think you've done something valuable by asking for people's thinking on this so you have lots of different perspectives to consider. Wish I'd had as much sense and had asked some older friends what they thought of some things I decided on my own to do that not much afterward I realized were waaay not-smart.

Tattoos are like marriage, only more permanent... and I'm in no rush to prematurely jump into a marriage.

I've had a lifetime of mistakes already, but thankfully drugs, crime, and alcohol wasn't involved. I've been on a roller-coaster in the last 5 years full of mistakes, and the two thing I can show for it is what I learned about actions, reactions, and life. The second thing is a G.E.D. with an over-the-top and outstanding score that shocks all that stand in the wake of it, partly accomplished because of my smarts, partly because of very effective rituals that focused my desire.

But if all goes according to plan, I'll start college in the Fall. I've had enough life experience already to know to not commit my life to one idea or thing on a spur of the moment.