I Have Decided to Shave My Head Bald

[Timbo1941]

I will be bald starting a week from Friday. I have decided to go for it. Comments from newyawka and Rob were especially helpful and all you guys have been a great help.

So I'm saying goodbye to the 'corporate' haircut in my photo when I say goodbye to my corporate job next week. I'll start my new blue collar job as a bald man.

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Congrats on the new job and your new start on life. You're in the right position now, especially to shave it smooth. Think of it as a whole new beginning. I can really relate to you Tim because I went through the same type of thing as you're going through, three years ago just this past month. A total life change.
I can only encourage you to go with it, remember you're making a fresh path in your life, practically starting over. What better way to do it than go out there and try something you know you want to do?

I think you're going to be fine. Hang in there and face it proudly, feel the confidence that will come over you when you do the things you want to do. Put it out there.

........Good luck!    

So, I've decided to go through with it. I have an appointment with the clippers next Friday after my last day at my current job.  

I told my barber I would rather start with a buzz and he said "Forget it. Just get it all shaved off at once. If you're going to do it, then do it right! "

For twelve years this man has been cutting my hair and asking me if he 'took too much off'. Now he is looking forward to shaving it all off! My hair is very thick on top and in the back but he said it would only take a few minutes and I'm done.

He said he would leave a great shine on my scalp.   That will be a new one for me.

The barber is going to take before-and-after photos.  We talked about  my new blue collar life that I'll be starting - as you say, a whole new start in most ways.

It will be more than a head shave - it will be part of a transformation that I hope will be a good transition into something new. The old image has to go - all of it.

So I'm going to bring my coveralls and work boots with me to change into before the head shave so I can 'shed'  (good word  ) and be free of the useless, expensive, fancy symbols that I have used to create the executive persona that used to mean so much to me : the Armani pinstriped suit, the necktie, the starched shirt, the Italian captoe shoes, the black Brooks Brothers socks, the cufflinks and the briefcase along with my corporate  haircut that goes with them. It's all part of the same fake package.  For some it is exactly right. But it no longer fits me.  

I guess I will really look like a new man when I leave the shop. But WHAT I will look like - well, I will soon know!  

How will people respond differently? I don't know. I wil have to see. They are used to one "Timothy". Now there will be a new one.

I will be shorn of my image along with my hair. I have shown that to the world for years. I don't know what the new image will be. But that's for the future.  

[Sgt. Pate]

Personally, I'd leave the old job with something that they could remember me for!  

[pdxtodd]

Agree with Sarge -- show up for work on your last day in your overalls and shaved head.  What a GREAT way to transform. 

[Timbo1941]

Agree with Sarge -- show up for work on your last day in your overalls and shaved head.  What a GREAT way to transform.  

Personally, I'd leave the old job with something that they could remember me for!  

That would be an abrupt transformation for my office: Armani pinstripes, necktie, expensive dress shoes and a full head of hair on Thursday afternoon and then coveralls with a name tag, work boots, with my head shaved completely bald on Friday morning - in a stuffy and proper upper crust investment bank.....?

Well, we'll see about that one.  I can imagine my boss's face....It would be something no one would forget.  

[Sgt. Pate]

Well, I'd do the head shave for sure!   

[Mikekoz13]

Well, I'd do the head shave for sure!   

I agree with Sarge on this one......... Good Luck Tim!

[The Scottish Ambassador]

would love to be a fly on the wall to witness THAT entrance! 

Agree with Sarge -- show up for work on your last day in your overalls and shaved head.  What a GREAT way to transform.  

Personally, I'd leave the old job with something that they could remember me for!  

That would be an abrupt transformation for my office: Armani pinstripes, necktie, expensive dress shoes and a full head of hair on Thursday afternoon and then coveralls with a name tag, work boots, with my head shaved completely bald on Friday morning - in a stuffy and proper upper crust investment bank.....?

Well, we'll see about that one.  I can imagine my boss's face....It would be something no one would forget.  

[Timbo1941]

That sure would be a case of "burning my boats". If I ever wanted to return to my old life it would be very, very hard to get a reference. My last day on the job will be the first thing they remember in the future.....

Going back to "Timothy the Investment Banker" woud be a lot harder after an entrance (and an exit) in coveralls with all of my hair shaved off. 

would love to be a fly on the wall to witness THAT entrance! 

Agree with Sarge -- show up for work on your last day in your overalls and shaved head.  What a GREAT way to transform.  

Personally, I'd leave the old job with something that they could remember me for!  

That would be an abrupt transformation for my office: Armani pinstripes, necktie, expensive dress shoes and a full head of hair on Thursday afternoon and then coveralls with a name tag, work boots, with my head shaved completely bald on Friday morning - in a stuffy and proper upper crust investment bank.....?

Well, we'll see about that one.  I can imagine my boss's face....It would be something no one would forget.  

[tomgallagher]

Good luck with whatever you do but I would at least shave my head.

[xnewyawka]

Start with the headshave Tim, just take care of that. I wouldn't do any of the other stuff though.
Leave with a good attitude and your head held high, and start your new life. 

[Timbo1941]

Just checked back to this thread and it looks like it is unanimous advice: I should show up for my last day at the bank with a bald head! 

Just curious: Why do you suggest it? As a statement? I'm new to this whole Sly thing...

Good luck with whatever you do but I would at least shave my head.

Well, I'd do the head shave for sure!   

I agree with Sarge on this one......... Good Luck Tim!

[Timbo1941]

Start with the headshave Tim, just take care of that. I wouldn't do any of the other stuff though.
Leave with a good attitude and your head held high, and start your new life. 

Head held high...yes...

[BillOnBass]

I think going to work shaved for your last day will show others that you are committed to making an important life change.  Could be a subtle way of sticking it to "the man" too?  

[Timbo1941]

I think going to work shaved for your last day will show others that you are committed to making an important life change.  Could be a subtle way of sticking it to "the man" too?  

Classic answer. Thanks

I had never even thought of "sticking it to the man" before because until now I was the man! I hadn't thought of that before. 

This will be a major change in status and perspective. 

[sellitman]

I would recommend a new pair of shades too.

Probably a pair that gives you that edgy look you always wanted.

Some radical Oakley's or some wicked War Farer's.