Cutting Your Locs to Get a Job

[Drip Bayless]

Whats yall opinion, especially STEM brehs. I'm getting a BS in chemistry soon and I'm tryna get an internship this summer. Moms and all my aunts stay telling me ima have to cut my shyt. Really don't want to but I got the high top dreads like this

Spoiler

so I know that shyt gon look even worse to these cacs

 

[Genos]

I got chief keefer twists and work in tech, but in my interview I wore it in an afro

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

Keep them anyways, fukk these cacs. Be a trailblazer to those coming after you

 

[MikelArteta]

yet you'll work with cacs like

 

[GetSomeMoney]

No need to cut them, I have seen plenty of brehs in engineering with them

 

[b_b]

Don't cut shyt youngin. Be yourself just be respectful and do your thing and that shyt won't matter

 

[Take It In Blood]

Don't cut your hair

 

[get these nets]

Been there...done that.

As you get older....you're going to learn to pick your battles...or to adapt.

Here's what I mean by adapt.
For example...find out if there is a local branch of a Black trade association in your area. Black professionals who work in the general field you want to enter. Go to a mixer...or meeting. Ask them questions about the hair and how much it may impact your career path or the fields/jobs were it will be less of an issue. You're far from the first person who has had this issue.

If your choice of hairstyle/expression is that important to you you can make informed decision and tradeoff about where to go.

 

[thenatural]

Don't do it bruh. I also work in STEM. If your credentials are straight, you'll be fine. If you don't get the first gig, don't fret. It'll happen because hard work pays off.

 

[FLATOP]

Go to the NSBE National Convention in March so you can skip the corporate bs

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

Great thread. I was tempted to make one similar

 

[Child_Of_God]

You shouldn’t have to cut your dreads to appease these cacs.

 

[Jhoon]

You shouldn’t have to cut your dreads to appease these cacs.

First you cut your hair, then they will cut your nuts.

 

[Freedman]

CompSci major. I cut my dreads off after 5 years because I have also been trying to get an internship It is what it is This is how it goes when we have to appease to white people to gain employment

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

CompSci major. I cut my dreads off after 5 years because I have also been trying to get an internship This is what happens when we have to appease to white people to gain employment

Were you trying with them though? What was that experience like? I've seen/know SOME brehs with locs in that are programmers, but it might be the particular companies they're with are cool