Cutting my hair is seeming unavoidable now.. i need advice.

thank you all for the advice!

i listened to you all and went out after class today to every open shop within 5 or 10 miles of my school and saw who was hiring, to my surprise it turns out that people really dont give half a shit if you have dreads. haha the employees of most stores i went to didnt even look at my hair. im going in tomorrow to talk to the manager of a gas station to see if that can go anywhere and the other possible job is at subway and an employee working said that they dont care what you look like and dont even drug test you. so as long as you present yourself well enough then theres a good chance that you could get the job. so im as hopeful as i can be that either of those will work out.

after going out today ive decided to keep my dreads and to completely throw the idea of cutting them out the window.

also ive already began looking into apartments in case i do ultimately get evicted... so much shit for a gram of herb!

i wish i would have denied more and told them to come back if they had a warrant but in our housing agreement the resident adviser can come into your room and check it if there is probably cause, also under the circumstances and pressure and having really never been in that situation before i was denying all the way up until the police officer told me that if she had to search and found it then she would have given me a citation or whatever so i figured that it would be best just to keep my legal record clean so i caved in. plus if they had searched the room there would have been much more found, i had a bubbler that was locked in my safe (i didnt think to put the herb in my safe because i didnt think it would last long enough to be sketchy), they would have also found a vaporizer, another couple g's of herb and another grinder that was full of herb and keef that were poorly hidden by someone who isnt me. so instead of them finding ALL of that and taking my roommate down with me i just took the shit end of it.

SE if only all cops were like that one, probably one of the cooler things ive heard of a cop doing before. i would have no problem telling anyone including an officer that i smoke and i have NEVER caused any trouble while under the influence of any substance especially herb.

ill post again what happens when they decide my fate here and if i end up getting a job haha

i really wasnt expecting this many answers i really appreciate it!

updated by @austin-c: 07/22/15 09:25:28PM

i think you need to keed growing those locks this will help you so much with your self esteme , you need to have more faith in your self , a little pot , come on , that is not a big deal . everyone has smoked pot . some of the smartest most succesefull people are pot smokers i personally do not belive pot can old you back , i actually believe the oppossite.

yeauh could not agree with you more. ive decided to definitely continue on with my locks.

i dont think pot is the problem here.. its just that my parents help me pay for college and if i get evicted from the dorms its kinda like a big efff you to them you know?

emilio gonzalez said:

i think you need to keed growing those locks this will help you so much with your self esteme , you need to have more faith in your self , a little pot , come on , that is not a big deal . everyone has smoked pot . some of the smartest most succesefull people are pot smokers i personally do not belive pot can old you back , i actually believe the oppossite.

I would suggest that you try to find off campus, university associated living. When I was at UCF in Orlando, there were tons of apartment complexes where single rooms where rented to students (usually 4 living in one large apartment,) at a cheap price.

i wouldn't cut off my dreads.

Dorms are expensive. I am sure that you can find somewhere to live that would make you much more comfortable and happier. Explain to your parents that it is actually saving them money

oh and BTW one of the top scientists at NASA has a glorious head of dreads i am drawing a blank....can anyone remember his name?

i dunno how anyonre can concentrate on school while living in a dorm with all those obnoxios idiots definately an off campus apartment would give u more freedom and be quieter and more suited to studying

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My new book Ban The Taboo Vol 1

i wouldn't say off campus is quieter... i lived off campus a mile away from UCF. we partied every night from wednesday night through saturday night... it was not quiet. the complex actually hosted HUGE pool parties with free beer on the weekends.

Fascism at it's finest.Even if they don't kick you out find your own place. No more sharing crappers and showers and you can avoid the resident narc nazi's in the future.

i definitely agree with you. i havent told my parents yet and wouldnt until i found my own place if i do get evicted.. i want to be able to pay for my own place showing them that im not taking what they do for me for granted. so im sure in the end if thats what happens they will be happy and realize they are saving a hell of a lot of money.

and as for the story about the scientist at NASA i knew that was true! i told my father (a man against hiring people with dreadlocks... im trying to get him to change) there was someone working at NASA with natural dreadlocks and he didnt really believe me and he kinda laughed it off, he told me recently he told his colleagues that i had said that and they all didnt believe it and laughed at the thought so im glad that i was correct in telling him that!

taye said:

Dorms are expensive. I am sure that you can find somewhere to live that would make you much more comfortable and happier. Explain to your parents that it is actually saving them money