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I am curious what are the best jobs for us girls that are Transgender?

I currently work seasonal jobs and move from job to job season to season and in the winter I work at ski resorts and I am sure that I could keep doing that in the winter since the jobs that I do have consist of layers and layers of clothing so hiding breasts would be easy enough until warm days when I would want to be in a T shirt then hiding breasts would be really hard to do.

I am just curious what kind of jobs are Transgender Friendly if those even exist?

Thanks, sorry if this is in the wrong place

Well you can wear a tshirt and a padded vest together...

The best transgender job like the best cis gender job is one you love doing, one that dose not stress you out too much for you to handle. I am still working on finding that type of job myself.

Stan Lee the father of marvel comics was 20 years ago asked in a interview. "Stan your 75 years old when are you going to retire?" he replied "Retirement is when you stop doing what you have to do and start doing what you love to do, and I have been doing what I love to do for fifty years now and have no intention of stopping" That was 20 years ago he is 92 now and is still the ambassador for comics to the world.

That should be the true dream job, not money, power and respect, but finding something you love enought to do for 70 years.

Serena

Quote from: Sandy74 on September 24, 2015, 11:13:34 AM
I am just curious what kind of jobs are Transgender Friendly if those even exist?

In computer and internet industry, I see some transgender people working without any serious discrimination. They usually work at the office while making a team of several people. Probably, self-employed is the best.

barbie~~

The Film industry. It's pretty queer. Probably always has been.

I mean I am not "queer" I am just a normal woman with a medical history and I work for a new media division of an old media company doing IT and engineering work.

It depends on how you view yourself honestly. If you want to wave the pride flag all day every day you may not want customer facing jobs. If you just want to be a normal woman and blend in, pretty much any job that women do (which is pretty much any job these days) will do.

@leki

well there are many truths...
many people say being transgender has to do with brain development before birth...
there are differences in brains of women and men so a mismatch is possible...
http://www.gires.org.uk/assets/DOH-Assets/pdf/doh-transgender-experiences.pdf

so people never were men... or women...

and some want their bodies to match their brains...
well many succeed over time...

and the factor xy is not decisive except for gonads...
for the others hormones are decisive...
with hormonal influence a neovagina can turn into a mucosa over time...

Quote from: Leki on September 25, 2015, 09:39:16 AM
And MANY other people say it is a mental illness, doesn't make it right,does it? "You were born a man and will always be a man, you just look like a woman. This is is the hard truth that us trannies have to learn to accept."

wow, all this time I thought I was a woman. I was a cashier, not the best job , but you get by.

Quote from: Leki on September 25, 2015, 09:39:16 AM
And MANY other people say it is a mental illness, doesn't make it right,does it?

Well its not.
Its called a medical condition now in international standards.
Well its called progress... scientific facts appear and people have to change their minds...

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That should be the true dream job, not money, power and respect, but finding something you love enought to do for 70 years.

Valwen, I love that, do what you love to do and be who you truly are......beautiful  :) :)
My grandfather was a doctor to the day he passed, he saw his last patients closed his office door and went to sleep in his chair, doing what he loved to the very last moment.

Video games.  There is a massive number of transgender video game developers, working at major studios around the world.  No one batted and I when I transitioned.

Quote from: Emmaline on October 06, 2015, 12:09:00 AM
Video games.  There is a massive number of transgender video game developers, working at major studios around the world.  No one batted and I when I transitioned.

I'd say the creative arts of any kind really, like film and art too.  Also, there seems to be a high percentage of trans people that work in the tech industries.  Video game design would be an extension of both of those areas.

One thing most of these jobs have in common is that it's not usually involving a lot of face-to-face client work I think.  You're working with your co-workers and peers mainly.

I do IT Support, but it's primarily face-to-face with the users in the office I work at.  There's a good bit of remote support though where people only ever hear my voice.  But rumors do spread, it's not a huge company I work for, we just have lots of tiny offices around the country.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm in a pretty liberal city, but a pretty conservative office, heh...

Honestly I've had worse experiences in a liberal city than my conservative town... It's pretty much random

I agree that the best job is one where you enjoy being there, enjoy the type of activity and the people you interact with. Aptitude for the activity is important, but saying it should be 'your passion' is often difficulty. Having work that you enjoy that allows you to pursue your passion is, today, more often a reasonable goal. I was in a profession that I was encouraged to pursue by my parents, having two older siblings who were successful in it. Was I truly happy in it? No, but I made the best of it and it provided very well for my family. If I had my choice and had been encouraged when I was younger, I would have pursed my dream and gone into medicine. I also would have had a very difficult time transitioning in the culture of my profession. As a result, I didn't. I waited and waited and waited. Until now........

For me, at the moment, the 'Best Job' is the one I am in - retirement! I am coming up to my first anniversary of coming out to my wife, and my start on this wonderful path.

Quote from: KristinaM on October 06, 2015, 10:32:39 AM

I do IT Support, but it's primarily face-to-face with the users in the office I work at.  There's a good bit of remote support though where people only ever hear my voice.  But rumors do spread, it's not a huge company I work for, we just have lots of tiny offices around the country.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm in a pretty liberal city, but a pretty conservative office, heh...

I am in IT too but planning to resign tomorrow as i am 5 days into HRT before my colleagues notice. My (asian) country has a low tolerance for trans mostly anywhere.
Like most IT peeps, i do not know where else to jump to. May go back to being desktop support for less stress.

Imo self-employed, being your own boss.

Otherwise probably any, as long as the staff/company is at least a little progressive in attitude.

As long as it pays I guess. I'm a writer and theater director (not all the times but it gets the income rolling) and some of the people I work with are open. As long as it pays and as long as it makes you happy.

Fortune 500 CEO for sure. Maybe the culture sucks, depending on who you are, but you can't beat the pay.

Seriously, though, money is a pretty significant thing for anyone who might be considering medically transitioning.

I'm working as a software engineer now, and it kind of sucks because holy crap the people are soooooo straight and conventional, by and large, but at least the pay is such that I'll probably be able to afford surgery. The good thing about the culture is that at least it's an environment where I can just work.

But the field isn't the main thing, even aside from money: It's the culture where you work. That will vary a lot between companies.

Many government jobs are good, depending on where you live at and the division of government you are working for.  Not only do they usually have good insurance coverage, they generally have anti-discrimination policies in place.  I've been an attorney with a major Southern California county for over 27 years.  My office has been fantastic.  I am not even the first attorney in my office to transition.  I have a stable income, great work environment and a very good retirement plan that includes a defined benefit plan as well as 401k and 457b plans.  If I had to retire today at 54 I would still be able to have an income greater than the highest SS retirement income with full coverage medical insurance.  Another 10 years and I should be able to have a retirement income that is equal to my working income.

When I transitioned some 30 years ago I went to college and did a secretarial and shorthand skills course, then go a job as a Secretary receptionist.  At that stage TG women were recommended to seek out "female" type work positions. I considered retailing, but didnt like the idea of having to stand on my feet all day. Back then Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic encouraged every TG women to look for jobs where we could "immerse" ourselves into traditionally female type roles.

I subsequently got a series of secretarial jobs before becoming a Legal secretary for a UK Bank. However my background has always been in IT.
These days IT is a pretty  good profession to be in no matter what Gender you are!.

Back then though in the late 80's  we were encouraged to look for more traditional "subservient" female type work.

Judith

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.

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.

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

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.