Do you wear a kilt to work? Then what do you do?

[Thunderbolt]

I've been searching around here on XMTS and have been looking for jobs that have allowed you to wear a kilt.

I previously worked at a dive shop (scuba). I just started wearing it one day and no one really cared. I did have several customers who were fans and told me they looked forward to seeing me in the kilt. I wore it once or twice a week.

However, I have changed jobs and work in a machine shop where a kilt would get ruined in short order from all the oil and grease. I am thinking about getting an over-apron and giving it a shot with my SWK every now and then.

Anyway, if you do or have work a kilt at work, what kind of job was it? I'm conidering a career change and was just curious.

I know certain jobs it would be a dead no-no. Firefighter comes to mind. Or any other job where clothing type is set by safety regulations.

So what's your job?

Thunderbolt

[Rob Wright]

I wore a kilt when I was a cook never had any issues. I am going ot school to be an educator so my opportunities will be limited.

Rob

[staticsan]

There's nothing physically stopping me from wearing a kilt to work as a I have a desk job (computer progrmmer). Just management wariness. :-)

Wade.

[BKPowell]

Where I work, I am an Applications Analysis (aka computer programmer). IT management requires business casual (dockers, dress shirt). The only day I can get away with wearing a kilt is on Halloween. However, one day, I showed up to work in cargo shorts and the boss told me to change. I did, I wore my black UK for the rest of the day. Seems the boss didn't notice that, too busy with meetings, I guess.

Brad

[hospitaller]

I am a Security Consultant.

I simply told everybody one day that I would wear my kilt. I havent stopped wearing it every day to work for the last...what...3-4 months? I lost track.

[Highlander31]

I spent thirty years in the security field. Went private in the '80's. I've worked for small companies and large organizations. Some positions (protection and investigations) did not allow for the kilt. I actually had one CEO tell me when he saw me in a kilt, that branch managers were to wear suits with trousers not a kilt (he wasn't interested that the clients liked the kilt.) The most kilt friendly was a small special operations company. Kilts were allowed in the office, but not in the field. I now trade foreign currencies and can dress as I please.

[ChattanCat]

I wore a kilt when I was a cook never had any issues. I am going ot school to be an educator so my opportunities will be limited.

Rob

I mentor a First robotics team after school hours. I always wear a kilt to the meetings, build, and competitions.

I just wear my kilt when I want. I work as a mechanical engineer and wear jeans when the job entails some dirty work like working on the railroad or making some prototype parts.

[turpin]

Remedial Project Manager for the U.S. EPA Superfund Program. I've been kilted at work for 2 years, which is mostly technical project managment of environmental investigations and cleanup of Federal land. Work entails primarily desk work, meetings, etc., with some field oversight as well. It's always interesting to meet with new people from Department of Defense or Energy and see their reaction. They soon get used to it, though, and when I do show up in pants (for field visits) they tend to remark that the pants just seem wrong somehow.

[BEEDEE]

I interviewed twice in a kilt for the position of Executive Director for our local Community College Foundation and got the job. I'm now known as the 'Kilt on Campus'.

Brian

[Kiltboy]

I teach at a local university and contract out as a technical instructor. Depending on the contract and employer, I can wear a kilt. While at the university, I always wear a kilt. When I don't, my co-workers ask what's wrong.