I have a question for you long bearded fellows. How do your employers or new employers react to the grizzly look? I have never had a job that allowed having a full beard without it being trimmed real well, so I never let it grow out.
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Been rockin a beard of some sort or another for quite sometime... EXCEPT for the 2 years I was at The Culinary Institute of America, where you would get points takin away from your daily grading if you werent clean shavin. Some chefs even kicked you out of class! But I did find a loop hole in the whole system. You were allowed a mustache. Only thing was you could not try to start one, it had to already be there. So after the first year I had a 3 week summer break which was plenty of time to have one grow in and that was the beginning of it all!!! Now I have a stache that has grown longer then my beard.
I currently have a full beard but I keep my neck and the tops of my cheeks clean with a duel edge razor (because a guy needs to collect more than pipes, tobacco, and single malt Scotch). In highschool I had big mutton chops on and off and a few years ago I few a full beard in one of the hottest summers I could remember so it went pretty fast. Then last year I started growing one again and shaved it off at Christmas then grew it back out in February. Now I just try to keep it a quarter inch on the sides and am letting it grow as long as I can on the 'stache and chin.
This is a first real grow for me... But I am getting the feeling as long as it is kept in order...
Unfortunately no ZZ top beards here...
I Also work behind the scenes in our advertising department, so my face really isnt seen by our customers
I have had a beard since the mid 90's and a mustache since the 70's. Recently went to a wide goatee
I had a friend in college that had a neatly trimmed beard and mustache. One morning he must have been still asleep at the sink and shaved his mustache off. He went around Amish style for a day or so and got lots of abuse. Then it grew back.
FYI, here is what an Amish site says about beards: Why do Amish men have beards, but not mustaches?
There are quite a few scriptures that mention beards in the Bible. An example would be Psalm 133:1,2. An Amishman does not shave his beard after he becomes married. A long beard is the mark of an adult Amishman. Mustaches, on the other hand, have a long history of being associated with the military, and therefore are forbidden among the Amish people. http://amishreligiousfreedom.org/amishfaq.htm#beard
No, I am not Amish, but my wife and I visited an Amish town for our 20th anniversary this year.
Winton
FYI, here is what an Amish site says about beards: Why do Amish men have beards, but not mustaches?
There are quite a few scriptures that mention beards in the Bible. An example would be Psalm 133:1,2. An Amishman does not shave his beard after he becomes married. A long beard is the mark of an adult Amishman. Mustaches, on the other hand, have a long history of being associated with the military, and therefore are forbidden among the Amish people. http://amishreligiousfreedom.org/amishfaq.htm#beard
No, I am not Amish, but my wife and I visited an Amish town for our 20th anniversary this year.
Winton
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I am a tenured full professor. In academia we can pretty much dress and style any way we want. Other than an expectancy for civil decency, there is no dress code. Several of my colleagues have large bushy beards. My counterpart in biology has both a bushy beard and long hair. Another colleague has a huge beard, etc.
I've been growing mine off and on for awhile. My fiancée finally decided she liked it, and my little boy probably wouldn't recognize me without it. He calls me "pipe smokin' daddy" :
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shawn622
Oh... Thank God!
I thought you had-had one too many face lifts. :nana:
Just kidding. :D
Looks good!
Oh... Thank God!
I thought you had-had one too many face lifts. :nana:
Just kidding. :D
Looks good!
I loved having a beard when I did basic training and reserve duty in the (Israeli) army, but my wife was very displeased with it.
Hey - I think I may have found some new leverage for continuing my PAD... :twisted:
Hey - I think I may have found some new leverage for continuing my PAD... :twisted:
Im pretty jealous. I may just let mine go for a while and see what happens, but I have never been able to grow much of anything.
Full beard. I've been keeping it trimmed more closely lately - my wife used to refer to it as "the marmot" in its full, bushy phase. I was unsure that I'd ever be able to grow a proper mustache thanks to the cleft lip I was born with, but it comes in reasonably well - and as long as I get it trimmed even every so often, it's not too off-kilter.
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