Best Transgender Jobs?

[Juliett]

The only guaranteed happiness i've found is get your name change and paperwork all finished, get used to being full time, and then move a few thousand miles away.

[Lyric]

Most large corporations on America have personnel policies these days that mandate tolerance of sexual minorities and transgender people. With smaller companies it may be more hit and miss. There seems to be little difficulty with internal occupations like IT and accounting where the employee never meets customers. I'm not so sure about sales and retail situation, though. While those positions should be more accessible to TG people, I know companies are the most touchy about the appearance of their reps.

Generally, though, you always want to look your best and come across to people in a positive way. It's no doubt that TG people have to try harder, just as genetic women have to try harder in many work situations. The trick is to be so good they can't turn you away.

[warmbody28]

anything with computers, health care. seems to be really open for us. i hardly ever face discrimination

[KayMc]

What Lyric said is dead on. Larger corporations are much more aware of the need to have policies in place to handle transgender employees, and are much more likely to have experience with folks like us. So your odds of success are going to be better at larger companies. But there are HUGE numbers of exceptions to that rule - I work as a nurse at a smaller company which has one of the only LGBT long-term care units in the area. Even smaller companies can be really LGBT friendly.

On the flip side, self-employment is rarely a bad idea. My theory on economics is basically that one is very unlikely to get ahead working for someone else, because ultimately the bulk of the profit from your labor flows to the employer. The day when a reliable career meant working for someone else 50 years is long over.