<p>After reading your post, Whatdidyou, I immediately thought Sarah Palin. Lol</p>
<p>Having the balls to admit you aren’t the most handsome out there makes you come across as more of a man than anyone who just merely sports good looks. With that personality, you should do fine.</p>
<p>I am 5’8" and I do not think my height has been an issue at all. 95% of the time during your interview is sitting down anyway. </p>
<p>That being said, yes “good looking” people have a advantage, but not because the HR looks down on them. Its more due to the environment they are around in, usually “better looking” people are more “socially normed”. Thus they exude that confidence in an interview.</p>
<p>I had a paid marketing related internship, and yes there were no “ugly” people, but I think its the nature of sales. An interesting side note, I think almost the entire class was Greek. </p>
<p>My soon to be starting job, most of the people in the final cut were “attractive” but I think that’s just due to the nature of social interactions, not cause you were too “ugly” for the job.</p>
<p>In the end, unless you are out there pounding the pavement, having interactions with clients, or “face time” jobs, being attractive means nothing. However, having normal and healthy interactions with your co-workers is essential.</p>
<p>Don’t change yourself for anyone!
Accept who you are and you should be fine in life.
Also, do not worry, you will get a job easily if you are a dedicated person because looks are not what built this country, but the great minds of people.
Good luck.</p>
<p>itsthefuture, be confident in your abilities and in the person you are and everything will be fine.</p>
<p>Many hotties go out with ugly guys remember that :D</p>
<p>How about looking younger than your age?</p>
<p>I’m 21 years old, but people mistaken me for a highschool student due to my short height (5’5) and young face.</p>
<p>I’m a male btw.</p>
<p>Pilly, grow a beard. Problem solved.</p>
<p>This thread has turned into a cosmetology discussion.</p>
<p>Young looking will help you with the big 4! BIGTIME Public accounting firms age discriminate. I once was required to fill out an employment application prior to interview with a national firm. They wanted to know high school info!</p>
<p>False - there are plenty of busted people around the office</p>
<p>My office MP looks like a god dang ogre moss. Looks can help or hurt you it really just depends. I have a friend that works in corporate accounting for a large company. She claims no pretty girls get hired there because the CFO of the company who is also a woman wants to be the prettiest one at the office. Now she is the prettiest but if she hired someone hot she wouldn’t be the prettiest anymore.</p>
<p>I know this is an old thread but as a 30 year old un attractive man who has worked in the back office of a major u.s corporation I’d like to chime in.</p>
<p>First off ugly people will have a harder time getting a job unless they have some very very specialized skills. Most jobs in this day and age is done by knowing someone who knows of an opening at their company. Ugly people for the most part know less people or have less people willingly to actively help them, its not necessarily on purpose imo its mostly subconcious.
Now when you finally get a job:
You will be automatically labeled awkward or creepy around the office especially if your a guy. You will meet people around the office they will shake your hand and give you a generic nice to meet you. Attractive people will get a real conversation with an offer of we should do lunch sometime. The ugly person will be forgotten until that person needs a file or work related info from you. Then you will get the “what’s your name again”
Don’t even think about developing a crush on any coworker. Especially if your a guy. Woman can be very very flirty with the cute guys at work. I’ve seen woman literally throw themselves at a good looking male coworker or make outright sexual references to him. If an ugly guy even makes a prolonged somewhat personal conversation with a woman they risk getting in trouble for sexual harassment. I know this is a cliche joke but sexual harassment is really just an unattractive person asking out a good looking person</p>
<p>Also the office bully will likely pick on u. I used to get sarcastic remarks about how much of a player I am and “all my woman That I get”. </p>
<p>Its lonely but that’s life.</p>
<p>I’ve been wondering the same thing too. Since I chopped off my hair which is now a short bob, more people perceive me as less attractive. Before everyone would obsess over how pretty my hair is and how pretty I was. Now it’s literally the opposite and people make fun of my hair and call me a guy.</p>
<p>Should I get hair extensions or something?</p>
<p>i was really fat as a teenager, so my father wanted to pull me out of school and marry me off because ugly women are forever relegated to the back office.</p>
<p>i discovered running senior year and lost some weight, and now he says i don’t need a job because i can get men to do everything for me.</p>
<p>you just can’t win.</p>
<p>This thread made me depressed.</p>
I agree with you. If HR is a girl, and for that matter girls anywhere in the work place, chances are they’re all going to try to take you out. I’m ugly myself, been thru many jobs because girls at work place find all kinds of ways to sabotage me and get me fired one way or another. In past 5 years i’ve held maybe 6-8 jobs got fired from all except couple 100% because of women were setting me up, sabotaging me, and basically getting me to get fired.
If you really are ugly as you say it, then yes your going to probably die poor(if your not rich already) and will have hard time to maintain jobs for long period of time. I suggest you move to a low-cost town/city just so you can buy yourself cheap property quickly as possible and cover your future from being homeless. I’ve been homeless, not one, not twice, but three times due to my ugliness. I’m not trying to scare you, but its a feministic world we live in, women are as they say cold-hearted, double-crossing and shallow, and sadly in many work environments theres nothing but women.
Hoping you the best.
Please do not resurrect old threads.