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I have a three year gap in my resume and getting a good tech job afterwards was EASY. If anything it made me more employable because people tend like people who
by ajkjk 4y ago
I have a three year gap in my resume and getting a good tech job afterwards was EASY. If anything it made me more employable because people tend like people who do more than write code all day. (Of course the lack of career progression was probably a net disadvantage in terms of raw money-making ability, but I don't care about that).
Incidentally I like to also tell people who are a bit behind the times that these days it seems like having visible tattoos is a net benefit for your employability. Everyone likes hiring interesting people who aren't mindless drones. Tattoos, piercings, quirky style .. all serves as evidence of that. At least on the west coast!
- inkblotuniverse 4y agoTattoos, piercings, and a quirky style signal you're the right kind of (cultural) drone. (A corporate wageslave could run away and integrate somewhere else; better to brand them with distinctive, permanent markers.)
- ajkjk 4y agoI don't know how you got that from my post, but I can assure you that you have misunderstood.
- yCombLinks 4y agoI think of tattoos completely differently than you. I only have one(small, not visible). I view it more as a group identification than any sort of interesting personality. I've met plenty of boring people covered in tats. I also know and spend time with several interesting people covered in tats. It's more of a social identifier.
- ryandrake 4y agoSince tattoos are so mainstream and common now, they probably send the opposite signal today than they did in the past. When I meet people under 40 or so -without- tattoos, my first impression is they might be more interesting, trend-bucking, counterculture, free thinking, etc. Obviously tattoo/no tattoo is a bad, low-signal way to size someone up, just pointing out the signal itself has phase-inverted from say 20 years ago.