I think that dressing up every day will be a shock for me, too. I usually wear jeans and a t-shirt, put my hair in a pony-tail, and never use makeup. It's great, 'cause I can roll out of bed and be dressed and ready in ten minutes. On the occasions when I do dress up and make myself up, people do a double-take and they can't believe it is actually me.
When I first started working at Kaplan, I used to dress up to teach my classes. I mean make-up, professional clothes, hair blown out, the whole nine yards. Over time, I stopped doing each of those things. Now I just go there straight from the lab and teach in my jeans and t-shirt. I'm on my fourth manager now, and luckily they haven't cared.
😛 Shrike told me that TPR actually encourages the instructors to dress down. But I know that this kind of thing won't work in the real world, so when the time comes to gussy up, I'll gussy.
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