I don’t believe that tattoos and piercings should determine if a person gets a job or not. There are many negative opinions about tattoos and people with them. If people have tattoos they are considered lazy, untidy, dirty, and a rebel to society. This myth that society likes to deem on people is ridiculous. My generation is more self expressive than many generations before. That is what tattoos are. They are a form of self expression.

Some tattoos have meaning and some people have tattoos just because they like them. People are too quick to judge others based on looks instead of what really matters; their ethics. Just because someone has something visible on their skin does not mean they are a bad employee. Look at birth marks, people don’t judge birth marks do they? Or would it be considered wrong, since it is something they are born with? Well regardless if a person is born with it or just wants something creative on themselves does not give you the right to judge them.

Take me, for example. I work at a great job, I am always studying, I believe in God, I am a hard worker, and I have a positive outlook. I bet you did not know that I have four tattoos and 10 piercings. Does that change your opinion about my work ethic? Does that change your mind about me, or make you think that I am an evil person because I desecrated my body with art? No, it shouldn't. I also believe it shouldn’t matter if I do have them or not.

Previous generations are scared. They hate change and fear that our generation will ruin society. But that’s ridiculous. Tattoos and piercings do not affect bystanders, they effect the person with the tattoos and piercings. What harm is coming on to you, that you believe that society needs to look “normal”? What is normal?! Normal is what a person personally believes is acceptable to themselves, not you.

Tattoos are pieces of art that are on a walking canvas. They do not harm a person’s ability to comprehend work; they don’t prevent people from success, employers who do not look past tattoos prevent people from success. A tattooed person is capable of working the same job as a non-tattooed person who has the same qualifications as each other. Tattoos and piercings are more common now then they have been in years, there needs to be an acceptation to this. People are not going to stop expressing themselves in the way they want. We need to stop judging people based on their skin and base individuals on their ethics.