Dreadlocks in the office
Well, they hired you with dreadlocks, so if you braved the interview nattily thus, then I don’t know why you would want to go bald-headed now. True, I don’t know if you’ll be in complex derivatives or in the mailroom, but I think you can safely go to work as yourself, and if they want you to turn more corporate, I think you’ll get a hint. Maybe it’s only a problem at the partner level, or maybe they see you as just the right guy to do business with millionaires like Troy Polamalu or Renaldo Balkman or the Marley brothers. I’m not sure whether dreads have any religious or philosophical significance for you, but in any event they have a noble tradition stretching from King Tut to the early days of the Rastafari in Jamaica, and truth be told, I think that because of Bob Marley and the positive vibration of reggae, dreads are much less threatening to mainstream suits than a big funky Huey Newton-style Afro.
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