would you do a job that required a uniform

[magicpixie]

I'm sahm, so doesn't really apply to me, but I would hate to wear the same thing day in day out
would actually find it depressing

I wear a uniform. I dont mind. Maybe because my sense of wellbeing and my personality is not defined by what I wear.

You sound ever so odd, OP.

lol I am odd, I know that

Many years ago I applied for a job in a nightclub, which I would have got had I not refused to wear the uniform of Lycra crop top and cycle shorts, in a black and pink diamond design. This was more to do with my body image than the indignity of it, which seems ludicrous now when I look back (oh hindsight).

Maybe magicpixie has a thing for uniforms

I have had jobs where I have worn a uniform and jobs where I have worn my own clothes. I hated wearing my healthcare uniform, found it very unflattering and not especially comfortable but necessary due to the nature of the job. I much prefer wearing my own clothes, feel more like me iykwim.

I used to love my nurse uniform, it was fab and the colour suited me
I used to work for a car dealership and we had to wear a uniform which consisted of a branded navy shirt and branded beige trousers. We had to pay £6 out of our wages for the privilege of wearing the uniform and the beige trousers were a nightmare, especially for my poor colleague who used to have heavy periods

Lycra crop top and cycle shorts!
I would draw the line at that too along with see through clothes
no way

no, I really do not have a thing for uniforms, its totally the opposite puts me right off tbh

fairgame, you must be kidding
you had to pay to wear it, was it 6 pounds a month or week?

I've worn a uniform everyday for the last 26 years. It certainly hasn't made me feel striped of individuality and creativity and kinda like some sort of clone, I'm defined by so much more than my clothes.

I wear a uniform, one that I trained to wear and am immensely proud to wear. Plus I look pretty damn good in it

£6 a month for a year. It wasn't optional either, we had to wear it. This was back in 2002.

fairgame that's actually outrageous

I realise not everyone will share my thoughts, and some people actually like them
mind you i'm not really even keen on school uniforms, which I also realise most people are for

I've only had one job where I haven't had to wear a uniform.

The worst uniform I had to wear was a pair of very unflattering White trousers and a green and white striped tunic when I was a dental nurse in one practice. It was horrible, we all protested when they suggested white trousers, as a few of us had heavy periods, but the male owners didn't want to know!

I have just finished a job where we all worked under high biosecurity containment, had to walk into work naked, wear 50-year old scruffy scrubs that never fit and have a shower at the end of the day before walking out naked again. I shared a bathroom with my boss, so saw her in the buff regularly.

It was wonderfully levelling. No-one got airs or graces about being higher up on the food chain when everyone was wearing the same crappy thing and most had seen each other's most private regions!

I would imagine someone who was more concerned about appearance and getting to wear individual clothes every day than the job they do would be someone who is a) very fortunate to have that luxury of choice b) rather shallow.

oh no to see all your workmates privates
yuk

Wearing a uniform at work would be the least of my problems. Although there is no way I would walk in to work in the nude

I agree that not doing a job because you don't like the uniform is a tad shallow.

recognising the piss-taking here....but if you are solely defined by your clothes I do recommend getting a personality implanted.

uniforms are great as long as they are practical for the job. They become a pain when they aren't.

Bunbaker - it's not like actually walking into work nude! Just having to change in a gym-type changing room that happens to be shared by colleagues.

I tend to explain it badly. Though there are two sections to each changing room so you have to walk through the low-containment one into the high-containment one.

Yes, as a nurse I'm proud of my uniform! Certainly wouldn't want to wear my own clothes for the job!

no way would i like to get changed in gym-type changing room, at work

I would hate that

Doesn't everyone have a " work uniform " even if it's not official ? I wear black trousers, top, cardi/ jumper - yep different but samey.

I wear a white tunic (press stud fastening) with black collar and sleeve banding, black trousers, black lace up shoes.
No make-up (myy choice) minimal jewellery,no watch (H&S, Infection Control)

I like it for all the reasons listed.
I don't need to think beyond "is it clean", it protects my own clothes (NHS Healthcare) and it gives me instant identity.
Patients see Uniform= Clinician.

Would love to. Would save indecisive me fretting over what to wear or buy for work. Would save my own clothes.