Wow, just had a glance to see if anybody else had posted
Thanks for the positive posts, I will look into getting them removed.
I am well aware of what the dots on my knuckles look like and what sort of person usually has them. I did them when I was twelve. Second double period of art at the high school. Teacher didn’t turn up and there was a big plastic bottle of Indian ink. A couple of the boys in the class lived at a care home and showed us how to do it.I can remember doing them as did most of the boys in the class. Stupid thing thing to do as I probably only did so to join in but I have done lots of stupid thing when I have been older a new better. Leaving school and then home at 16 have affected me way more than a bit of ink.
We had to do PE with out tops of at school and it was quite a site with names and crosses and other shit tattoos on show every week.
But my employer didn’t judge enough to not give me the promotion they just mentioned it wasn’t perfect. This is why I considered getting them removed. I agree that they don’t sit well with my new role as most people think thug, borstal or prison when they see them. In a meeting they don’t know me and I am not going to have a card to hand out saying who and what I am.