I'm not a fad kind of person, I don't do it to be cool or better then anyone else. I agree that it is not the most important thing in one person's life. I got a managerial job because it got me scolarship oportunities and a nice four dollar raise. I designed the cross on my back myself, I got it tatooed for my own benefit. I don't like to spite the world, I am not one who enjoys people staring at my back. Its for me to remind myself who I am (yes I agree that it is primitive now that I think about it), not to tell others who I am. It wasn't an very important issue of getting a tatoo, it was much more then that to me. Now that I think about it maybe I could have done something else to express myself like through my artwork or something. I'm no extremest on this subject.

Bottom line is, that I didn't do it to be cool or gain attention, I did it because I wanted to mark myself with the symbol of the holy spirt. Not because I'm chirstian, because I know its truth. I don't go up to people and say "Look at my tatoo!" If people want to see whats on my back, I tell them, not with pride, not for own personal gain, I just tell them honestly. It will be the only thing I get in my life. So I do totally agree with you Tab, I was 15 when I got it, when I was younger and immature. I admit I could have done better then that, I should have waited until my mind matured, then I wouldn't have gotten it then.

Thanks for your imput Woodsman and Tab, gave me something to think about.

No, I believe it was more to do with practicality.  All sheep humor aside, I would imagine that it's a lot easier to use the bathroom that way.

if you REALLY want to do this, then you may as well go for it, but as con said, it could affect your potential for corporate ladder-climbing.  sure it may not be readily apparent.  but when you're sitting face-to-face across a desk with someone in a conference room -- or more importantly, in an interview -- as you're talking to each other, it will definitely become noticeable, as people who are actually paying attention to the person they're listening to (as interviewers and some coworkers generally do) tend to look directly at the face of the person speaking.

personally, i'm thinking about getting inked, but i don't know what i want.  i know i'm going to have to live with it for a lifetime, and i've already established it will be somewhere on/around my shoulder (either up high on my arm) where it would be pretty much under a shirt sleeve, or on my shoulder blade on my back.  i want to have something that represents me - an expression of myself - but at the same time, i don't want something that interferes with my daily life and social interactions.

Amen.

That depends where you stuck them? :]