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Hair in the ear

I grew up with watching a lot of adults working their ass off to feed the family.  My dad or my father in law or their friends all slaving away from factory floors to cubicles to some running their own businesses. One theme common to these aging adults was their sprouting hair from all orifices visible to me. Nose hair and more dominant their ear hair.  It just grew as a natural evolutionary code from eons past and no one paid any attention to it.  Their work did not suffer and they were the same family focused individuals they always were. Enter 2020 - that too the bubble called Silicon Valley.  It is official.  Not only are hirsute characteristics passe, they are frowned on and can cost you your job or at least a promotion. When a recent out of work adult friend of mine told me he had gone bald I worried.  I asked if he was doing ok healthwise.  His response - 'dude I shaved it off to get ahead'.  'In my career.' Apparently the whos w...