I'm somewhat at my wits' end... In tree days i have to be work as an interpreter at some goddam conference about higher education in fact all us students have to be present there the things is you are expecting to be officially-dressed i mean...dress code....man...does it depress me!coz i really have nothing officialy-looking...haha...don't know how i should dress.... is it fair people?????????? Aren't my skills and abilities more important than my clothes? Why should i buy awful ordinary clothes just to satisfy society's demands (which have no grounds by the way) i'm going to work as an interpreter...it's my future profession...but i just wonder if it's posssible to find a job where i'm free to wear everything i like???? it kills me. does anyone have the same problem? any solutions?
i have two jobs where i can pretty much wear anything. no profanity or showing the tat-tats and such, but beyond that i'm free. one job says my hair has to be "natural"... and my dreads are as natural as it gets so they dont argue haha. the only part thats a pain is having to pull my hair back everytime, but thats cause one job is with food, so i understand.
dress code is the way you accept beeing part of the group... your skills come second, it's like a contract, first you are like everyone else, then you're what you can do. when you go to a club to dance, you dress properly. when you work, it's the same. it's a language, a way of saying that you understood what is expected of your work, that you understood how to behave according to what's surrounds you. It's not loosing personality. it's dressing it otherwise.
Dress code is idiotic, but almost every job will require it from you while you still have no degrees or professional skills. Ain't nothing you can do about it other than not take the job. Wear a pretty conservative dress and go interpret!
I've been very fortunate to have a couple of jobs where dress code was not an issue. Geez, my first job ever was on the docks of a marina - we'd spend a good portion of the day barefoot. Waiting tables usually requires a uniform... When I was a teacher I had to dress up. I hated that - but you have to look apart from the students. Now, as a performer in a dueling piano bar, we're actually discouraged from wearing 'nice clothes'. We're supposed to look like everyone else... Last night, I actually had to wear shorts (i normally wear jeans), it was so damn hot up on stage. I'll say this, when you have to get into your 'work' clothes, it eventually becomes a kind of switch - and that's not a bad thing. It puts you into 'work mode'. Then, the most satisfying part of the day is when you get to toss all that stuff off and get comfortable again....
Yeah, I worked on a boat... nobody really gave a damn what you wore, so long as you didn't get hit by an oyster cage or crab pot
I am at work right now. I am wearing a hoody (with the hood up). I am wearing a jagr shirt that cleary says "Herbs" on the back. Add an old pair of jeans and a pair of hiking shoes and there you have my work 'uniform'. If dress code is that big a deal you could always do I.T., there is generally no dress code.
im in the military, so i have a strict dress code. no choice i dont have advice to offer but it DOES feel good to bitch about your circumstance doesnt it? everyones entitled to a good bitching session. sorry that you cant have your own dress code. perhaps you should start your own business or something?? i dunno.
You work in nova too, or do you commute out of the area? Sometimes I have to make runs to Reedville and Baltimore... and all around nova.
from russian to eng and vice versa i finally did it and it gave me much pleasure i mean...not dress code of course but the work i did and the man i had to interpret to. he was a nice guy with an earring, open-minded and not formal at all... so i felt fine i didnt dress too formal too when we had some spare time we talked about american literature and music and hippies so i was lucky this time and hope i'll alw be
