Thread: Help, I need an excuse not to fit in!

I agree with Obie on this one. A mustache is a small price to pay to fit in to the corporate culture.

Thanks for all your responses - this has been a great way to obtain a diverse range of opinions and experiences from well shaved gentlemen within organisations, and how to tackle (or not to tackle) the corporate world; in order for me to come to a decision.

As Obie said, 'Theyre not asking you, they are telling you,' is a valid point that cant be ignored, and as much as I am my own person, I do not yet have sufficient resources to be my own boss.

I like the idea of offering to shave it off in public with a straight for charity, but the concept of shaving off so much growth (and I believe a straight excels at full on beards!) is something I would like to do in my own time, as I have not done so before like that. Im looking forward to it in a strange way..

It was also a good idea to offer barber type shaves for charity; however I have no experience shaving others, only myself, and fear I may draw blood - consequently I would be generating negative charity as they would sue me!

Thanks for all the advice, its made it seem more positive.

So im gona grow a moustache for a month. Cant be that bad, doesnt Lynn sport one!?

Well if its really an issue you can shave it very popular "Naz-stache" and see whether they prefer you clean shaven and not participating or participating and looking like Hitler.

I enjoy shaving a thick beard right off with a straight. It is a real pleasure with good prep and a sharp razor. Just slides right off the face. It would be cool to shave your beard off with the straight while the other guy fiddles with clippers and then a safety razor, making a mess of it.

I'm planning on doing just this for my school's open day. First I'm going to grow a full beard. When my school has its open day in December I'm going to open my own little barber shop. I'm going to be shaving a clientel of balloons and I might even get one of my gay students to be an assitant baber giving hair cuts. At the end of the day I will finish with a finally of shaving off my full beard infront of the whole school.

nathan - What kind of school do you go to/work at?

I've never grown the 'stache, I think I'm going to do it, even if it makes me look real creepy.

Originally Posted by khaos

Well if its really an issue you can shave it very popular "Naz-stache" and see whether they prefer you clean shaven and not participating or participating and looking like Hitler.

LOL!!! I can just see the conversation.

"Ah, John...yes, you see, w really appreciate your efforts in Movember. Really, thanks for joining us, but they, ah, particular, ah...style of your moustache is, ah...distrub...no, well, let's just say it's not ah...appropriate, for the ah...charitable anture of the event..."

Originally Posted by bassguy

nathan - What kind of school do you go to/work at?

I work in an Islamic school, so growing a beard will be no problem. As for the open day, every foreign teacher has to have a booth that represents their culture and or their hobbies. So I'm going to have a barber shop.