Hi, Terri > > The most "corporate" I've had to dress is "business-casual" -- those > clothes don't bother me, since they include pants. That is about what we have here, and I wear slacks most days. Some women (including another female network engineer, and a good one) prefer skirts or dresses. > office was supercooled or something so I was often changing from shorts > outside for biking to a sweater inside for the AC). This bothers me no end! If it's 80 degrees F outside, why does it have to be 60 inside? Aside from wasting energy, I end up wearing a sweater, and so do lots of people here. Does anyone actually like it working in a refrigerator? > However, I've been told *many* times that I shouldn't even consider going > to a job interview in anything less than a skirt or dress. Anyone else get > that? Yep. I wear suits to interviews, usually with a skirt, but I do have slack suits and have been known to wear them. > > I thought about it a bunch before my last round of interviews and decided, > even though the coop people are trained well and have encountered all sorts > of real interviewers (whereas my experience is comparatively limited) that > if people were going to hire me as a programmer, there was no point in > looking any more feminine. (In fact, it could be a bad point in some > cases, although I suppose I don't want to work for anyone who can't take me > seriously 'cause I'm a girl coder.) I think whether it's good or bad depends on the expectations of the interviewer. The thing is, how do you know those expectations in advance? I'm so glad my contract was extended for a second year and I don't have to deal with this right now. All the best, Caity _______________________________________________ issues mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/issues
