I do feel it's a minority freedom, based on the anecdata of the recruiters I've dealt with here. I'm in IT, but I'm not in an IT company. I'm pretty sure none of my recruiters would have let me interview in anything Jilli would ever wear outdoors.

Burrell, do you take your Gaba at night?

Yep but not every night, only when the stress monkeys come. Or when I wake up in the wee hours of the am and need to get a few more hours sleep. But I do take melatonin every night.

The comments are hilarious with all the, "YOU CAN'T GET A JOB IF YOU LOOK LIKE A WEIRDO."

But above and beyond both having jobs, neither Jilli nor Bobak look like weirdos. They just have way more style than most of us.

Well, you know, Jilli only does it because she's a reporter. (You never told us!)

I looked up a show on IMDB and it tried to convince me that she was her, and...don't you want to update your profile picture? Maybe?

I do feel it's a minority freedom, based on the anecdata of the recruiters I've dealt with here.

Oh yeah. I definitely couldn't wear jeans and have visible tats and purple hair at a lot of places. Most of the places I've worked it's ok, though. I'd have to wear long sleeves and never put my hair up if I went to work in a more strict corporate place. It's just so weird to me...I've worked at a super successful civil rights law firm and NASA, and neither of them gave or give a crap about what we looked like. So I'm wondering...if one can land a rover on Mars and have a mohawk, what exactly is the issue? I mean, you landed a robot on Mars. Obs the haircut doesn't have anything at all to do with output. Our customers are ALL THE TAXPAYERS.

Speaking of, thanks for the ice cream. They gave us ice cream today to celebrate. DELICIOUS TAXPAYER ICE CREAM.

I do feel it's a minority freedom, based on the anecdata of the recruiters I've dealt with here.

That's true, but like Allyson it tends not to be an issue where I work.

They gave us ice cream today to celebrate. DELICIOUS TAXPAYER ICE CREAM.

Is that like soylent green?

They were called Magnum bars. And I giggled forever, because there are Magnum condoms. So when I tossed the wrapper in the trash, I totally had to comment. Because I'm 12.

I do feel it's a minority freedom, based on the anecdata of the recruiters I've dealt with here.

Oh, it totally is. And the thing that I try and point out to my babygoth readers is that I can get away with this because 1) I'm good at my job, and 2) I work at being approachable. I'm relatively friendly and outgoing by nature, anyway, but in the workplace? I make sure everyone views me as someone they can talk to (even if I'm wearing fangs because I want to menace some developers).

Well, you know, Jilli only does it because she's a reporter. (You never told us!)

I never told ME. I wonder what other interesting jobs I have that I'm unaware of.

So, anyone want to place a bet on whether I'll break 3k friends on FB by the end of the week? (At this point, all I can do is giggle, because otherwise I'll freak out a bit.)

Competence forgives eccentricity, sometimes.

Huh. This means I have to come up with a really good summergoth outfit for tomorrow at work, because I bet my number of viewers on Tumblr jumped.