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With the corollary advice being: a grey beard will protect you from accepting positions where looks might be more important than skills. No slight against you
by craigsmansion 6y ago
With the corollary advice being:
a grey beard will protect you from accepting positions where looks might be more important than skills.
No slight against your friends, if they needed the money they did what they had to do. But if one doesn't, there is nothing wrong with letting your beard guide you: somewhere out there is a lisp codebase just waiting for your love and attention.
- kazinator 6y ago> a grey beard will protect you from accepting positions where looks might be more important than skills. OTOH if someone thinks you're a wizard because you have a grey beard, that's also looks above skills.
- programmarchy 6y agoHaha, but flaunting a gray beard is just as superficial as dying your hair. Personal appearance is a primary signal, there's no way around it. Personally, I'd judge a gray beard more positively than a hipster get-up. Probably because my first mentor in the field, Denny, looked like Santa Claus, so I'll always have a soft spot there.
- znepj 6y agoAnyone can dress hipster (some more convincingly than others), but not everyone can grow a beard.