Comments on: Day 280: Beard or No Beard?

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:16:53 +0000

Since you asked..first impressions are important, and reactions to a beard are always raising questions, while clean-shaven is the norm, not an issue.

If you have rare skills, keep the beard. If not, lose it and later pry for reactions to a re-beard. I haven’t had a beard since my 20’s, and don’t really miss it. Nor long hair. They both make me look older, anyway.

By: anaj

anaj — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:15:41 +0000

There are only two situations in which a beard is acceptable:
_you have very sensitive skin and can’t shave that often (in which case the ‘beard’ should not grow beyond the half inch of stubbles)
_you are slightly obese and don’t like the sight of your neck bulging out below your chin (that’s when a full beard is recommend)

For all other situations: Shave off that fuzz!

By: Albert Hammond

Albert Hammond — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:35:24 +0000

Go without the beard.

By: snowchild

snowchild — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:46:05 +0000

i sincerely hope your chest pain is of a different sort than my patient’s – especially at your tender age his pain in you would worry me deeply…
at any rate, there was more of the ‘nice’ than of the ‘rude’ in my message – and i would think twice before putting a picture up on the net – never seems a good idea somehow…i would be weary of even just using my own name on the net, not to mention putting a picture up (am i too paranoid?). or is ‘facebook’ some sort of limited access page? sorry, i apparently don’t spend enough time on the net, i never know these things, didn’t know what a blog was either before i came across this one (embarassing, i know!).

By: cerebraljetsam

cerebraljetsam — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:16:19 +0000

I can’t believe my beard went from “18th century German thinker” to “turnoff” and “superficial nonsense” in only a matter of days. Now there are at least two men with chest pain.

Despite my pain, I shall be putting up some pictures on facebook in the near future. However, I have the feeling I will have to shave soon. Too bad–at last people had started to take me seriously (especially in class stroking my beard/chin while lecturing provided my claims with an added note of gravitas). Also, how will I ever get my dream job as an Aleutian fisherman without a beard?

By: snowchild

snowchild — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:41:43 +0000

lovely, this ist exactly the kind of superficial nonsense discussion iI was in need of to distract myself from case studies a la ‘72-year-old man with a history of peripheral vascular disease and recurrent chest pain presents with….’
so, on to the important stuff: it’s a little hard to imagine what you look like with a beard, but I seem to recall that you were able to pull off a goaty pretty well. however, you have a nice face so you might as well show it and – more importantly – employers like being able to see (and judge…) a possible future employees face: it creates an illusion of trustworthiness…no hair behind which to hide inappropriate thoughts (e.g. about the employer)! so i would say: no beard until you’ve got the job.

By: lenina

lenina — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:59:09 +0000

are there any pics to be found anywhere so that one can compare? e.g. facebook.

I’d always go for NO BEARD. beards are such a turn-off.