I Shaved My Beard for This?!


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So after almost four years of sporting a beard, I shaved it off tonight for an interview tomorrow: for an unpaid internship. I certainly hope it was worth it. These things grow back, right?

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yoda8myhead wrote:
So after almost four years of sporting a beard, I shaved it off tonight for an interview tomorrow: for an unpaid internship. I certainly hope it was worth it. These things grow back, right?

Oddly a guy I knew, his didn't it came back in spotty with some gray hairs he didn't have before.


Firstly, congrats and good luck!

Secondly, at least you haven't started getting grey hairs in your eyebrows. Then come the nightmares you're starting to slowly turn into Andy Rooney. But enough about me.

Paizo Employee Director of Narrative

Pics!

I can't get decent facial hair to work out. The lip hair doesn't meet the chin hair and neither of those meet the cheek hair. I dislike shaving, but I kinda have to or else I just look silly. Then again, I always look silly.

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I can't grow a beard, either. I stop shaving for a week, and all I get is a dirty looking chin, and a wife that is unhappy.

One day, though, I will have the Riker beard I long for!!!


My fiancee just left me when she saw my naked face. FML!


yoda8myhead wrote:
My fiancee just left me when she saw my naked face. FML!

Really?! Holy crap dude!!! {crosses fingers you're just messing with us}


Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:
My fiancee just left me when she saw my naked face. FML!
Really?! Holy crap dude!!! {crosses fingers you're just messing with us}

I am. She is laughing at me a lot though. She said, "at least you did this now instead of a week before the wedding. This way you can grow it back so you don't look 19 in the photos."


yoda8myhead wrote:
Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:
My fiancée just left me when she saw my naked face. FML!
Really?! Holy crap dude!!! {crosses fingers you're just messing with us}
I am. She is laughing at me a lot though. She said, "at least you did this now instead of a week before the wedding. This way you can grow it back so you don't look 19 in the photos."

Whew!

You need to take her out to eat somewhere, just so babyface-you can get carded and her not. :)


I have said it before, but if i needed to shave for a job interview, I wouldn't want the job

of course, the UK is less anti-facial-hair than the US, which may give me more choices

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Good luck with the interview. You can always get another beard.


Loztastic wrote:
I have said it before, but if i needed to shave for a job interview, I wouldn't want the job

I agree, but ten months of unemployment makes one compromise his principals.


I have got to see what you look like without it. I just can't picture you lacking a beard, although it has been some time since I've seen you semi-regularly.

[EDIT]- If it helps, I'm clean shaven now myself in almost every sense of the word.

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When I saw this Thread title I immediately got that song stuck in my head.

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yoda8myhead wrote:
So after almost four years of sporting a beard, I shaved it off tonight for an interview tomorrow: for an unpaid internship. I certainly hope it was worth it. These things grow back, right?

I have a friend who shaved his beard off after something like 20 years. He was horrified to learn that in the intervening decades since he had last seen his chin, his face had—as he put it—grown to look like a potato.

He now has a beard again.


Vic Wertz wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:
So after almost four years of sporting a beard, I shaved it off tonight for an interview tomorrow: for an unpaid internship. I certainly hope it was worth it. These things grow back, right?

I have a friend who shaved his beard off after something like 20 years. He was horrified to learn that in the intervening decades since he had last seen his chin, his face had—as he put it—grown to look like a potato.

He now has a beard again.

LOL! +1

In my experience the less of my face you can see the better I look.


I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum, I keep myself clean shaven pretty much at all times. I go more than three days I look like the Wolf Man and itch like one too. Then it absolutely HAS to come off.


yoda8myhead wrote:
Loztastic wrote:
I have said it before, but if i needed to shave for a job interview, I wouldn't want the job
I agree, but ten months of unemployment makes one compromise his principals.

Maybe you should be like Dali and carry around a cigarette case of false mustaches?


Freehold DM wrote:

I have got to see what you look like without it. I just can't picture you lacking a beard, although it has been some time since I've seen you semi-regularly.

[EDIT]- If it helps, I'm clean shaven now myself in almost every sense of the word.

o.O Nary a hair on your body?


Calm down, Beavis.


It was worth it. I got offered the position tonight.

Now what do I need to shave to get a paid job?


yoda8myhead wrote:

It was worth it. I got offered the position tonight.

Now what do I need to shave to get a paid job?

LOL! Congrats!

Sovereign Court Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder

yoda8myhead wrote:

It was worth it. I got offered the position tonight.

Now what do I need to shave to get a paid job?

Congrats, Mark!


yoda8myhead wrote:
So after almost four years of sporting a beard, I shaved it off tonight for an interview tomorrow: for an unpaid internship. I certainly hope it was worth it. These things grow back, right?

There was an article other day about unpaid internships that were illegal, basically, they can't profit from your actions, so they can't make you do menial crapwork that a legitimate employee would get paid to do. Unpaid internships are strictly for training you at their expense.


I don't think i've been clean shaven for about 15 years now - mainly a goatee or a full beard. clean-shaven and i look like a freshly peeled potatoe, i'm too bald to pull off ironic facial hair, and the least said about the time i grew a moustache the better!

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Vic Wertz wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:
So after almost four years of sporting a beard, I shaved it off tonight for an interview tomorrow: for an unpaid internship. I certainly hope it was worth it. These things grow back, right?

I have a friend who shaved his beard off after something like 20 years. He was horrified to learn that in the intervening decades since he had last seen his chin, his face had—as he put it—grown to look like a potato.

He now has a beard again.

My Dad has shaved his beard twice whilst he's been with my mum, the first time, for a bet, before I was born. He walked into the house and she screamed because she thought it was an intruder....The second time was for a fancy dress, my 18 year old sister saw him and ran off screaming "that's not my daddy" if I remember rightly.

My children have never seen me clean shaven...They have enough of a fit when I have a hair cut!


Nevynxxx wrote:
Vic Wertz wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:
So after almost four years of sporting a beard, I shaved it off tonight for an interview tomorrow: for an unpaid internship. I certainly hope it was worth it. These things grow back, right?

I have a friend who shaved his beard off after something like 20 years. He was horrified to learn that in the intervening decades since he had last seen his chin, his face had—as he put it—grown to look like a potato.

He now has a beard again.

My Dad has shaved his beard twice whilst he's been with my mum, the first time, for a bet, before I was born. He walked into the house and she screamed because she thought it was an intruder....The second time was for a fancy dress, my 18 year old sister saw him and ran off screaming "that's not my daddy" if I remember rightly.

My children have never seen me clean shaven...They have enough of a fit when I have a hair cut!

:)


Freehold DM wrote:

I have got to see what you look like without it. I just can't picture you lacking a beard, although it has been some time since I've seen you semi-regularly.

[EDIT]- If it helps, I'm clean shaven now myself in almost every sense of the word.

No fair TEASE!!!


yoda8myhead wrote:

It was worth it. I got offered the position tonight.

Now what do I need to shave to get a paid job?

Do you really want suggestions on that topic?!


yoda8myhead wrote:

It was worth it. I got offered the position tonight.

Now what do I need to shave to get a paid job?

OH almost forgot Congrats and I hope it turns into a paid job for you.


yoda8myhead wrote:

It was worth it. I got offered the position tonight.

Now what do I need to shave to get a paid job?

I know someone who has a tattoo of a law-mower on his chest, who shaves a strip of chest-hair off leading up to it


yoda8myhead wrote:
It was worth it. I got offered the position tonight.

Congratulations, Mark!

What with both Adam Daigle and Freehold DM asking for pictures, maybe you'll update the picture here?

yoda8myhead wrote:
She is laughing at me a lot though. She said, "at least you did this now instead of a week before the wedding. This way you can grow it back so you don't look 19 in the photos."

Uh... I guess not.

Nevynxxx wrote:
My Dad has shaved his beard twice whilst he's been with my mum, the first time, for a bet, before I was born. He walked into the house and she screamed because she thought it was an intruder....The second time was for a fancy dress, my 18 year old sister saw him and ran off screaming "that's not my daddy" if I remember rightly.

When I lived with my parents, my father shaved off his beard for the first time in over 20 years. I was the first to see the result, and I nervously muttered "I don't think you should have done that."

It was the mildest reaction he got from the family.

Later that morning, I heard my mother screaming "AAHHH!!! You shaved your beard! You look terrible! TERRIBLE!!!"

For months, whenever my father helped around the house, my mother would say "Thank you! That was very nice of you! Who are you?!?"

Even the family DOG hated it. His tail would go down whenever he saw my father's face. He took to following my father from behind, because at least the man looked the same from the BACK. It also seemed to reassure the dog when my father talked, because at least his VOICE was the same. But much of the time, the dog seemed uncertain who my father was.


Steven Tindall wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:

I have got to see what you look like without it. I just can't picture you lacking a beard, although it has been some time since I've seen you semi-regularly.

[EDIT]- If it helps, I'm clean shaven now myself in almost every sense of the word.

No fair TEASE!!!

HA!!!


yoda8myhead wrote:
Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:
My fiancee just left me when she saw my naked face. FML!
Really?! Holy crap dude!!! {crosses fingers you're just messing with us}
I am. She is laughing at me a lot though. She said, "at least you did this now instead of a week before the wedding. This way you can grow it back so you don't look 19 in the photos."

Haha. That sounds so like my girlfriend! I shaved for christmas last year, and haven't lived it down yet.


OK I don't know how to link to it but as a sorta funny song to go along with the topic at hand check out you tubes

did i shave my legs for this deana carter. Very funny. Counrty music encompasses everyday life so whuy not a song about shaveing?


yoda8myhead wrote:

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I am. She is laughing at me a lot though. She said, "at least you did this now instead of a week before the wedding. This way you can grow it back so you don't look 19 in the photos."

Yeah , I just shaved my winter growth off last week. My wife said I looked 10 years younger. One of my friends said 20.

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Steven Tindall wrote:

OK I don't know how to link to it but as a sorta funny song to go along with the topic at hand check out you tubes

did i shave my legs for this deana carter. Very funny. Counrty music encompasses everyday life so whuy not a song about shaveing?

Great minds think alike.

Also LINK

Also, again, congratulations.

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Loztastic wrote:

I have said it before, but if i needed to shave for a job interview, I wouldn't want the job

of course, the UK is less anti-facial-hair than the US, which may give me more choices

Agreed. I might go so far as to "groom" it, but if an employer told me to shave my beard or lose the job, I'd say "Where's the door?"

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Congrats!!! I still remember the horror of having to cut my hair short when I joined the Air Force, I still miss my hair :(.


Loztastic wrote:

I have said it before, but if i needed to shave for a job interview, I wouldn't want the job

of course, the UK is less anti-facial-hair than the US, which may give me more choices

Amen.

I've always hated shaving. It's deeply unpleasant and I grow hair fast enough, and dark enough, that I'd have to do it every day. I walked into the first day of junior high with a full beard. It's been off twice then and both times my mother, who isn't very fond of the beard, instructed me it needed to come back quickly. My father has it even worse, though. Shaving causes him to break out in a rash that lasts for some time.


Paul Watson wrote:
Steven Tindall wrote:

OK I don't know how to link to it but as a sorta funny song to go along with the topic at hand check out you tubes

did i shave my legs for this deana carter. Very funny. Counrty music encompasses everyday life so whuy not a song about shaveing?

Great minds think alike.

Also LINK

Also, again, congratulations.

You sir are a computer genius, never doubt that. and Thanks.

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