I think you massively overestimate how much it affects your success in this field. Maybe if we were in the modeling business or another where looks are critical. But we’re not; your looks are not an indicator of your skills, the actual thing people are judging.
As long as you look presentable, your skills outweigh looks by magnitudes.
You do not live in the same society as some of us.
Below is a story about how insisting that a fitness instructor look physically fit is unreasonable and sometimes illegal.
The icing on the cake is that her day job is said to have been in tech, in SF.
`` Jennifer Portnick, a 240-pound San Francisco aerobics instructor rejected by Jazzercise because of her size, has reached an agreement under which the firm will drop its requirement that instructors look fit.
After weeks of mediation with the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Jazzercise Inc., the world's biggest dance-fitness organization, agreed to change company policy.
The case, which drew international attention, was the first to be settled under San Francisco's "fat and short" law, an ordinance barring discrimination on the basis of weight and height.
"I'm absolutely thrilled with this outcome," said Portnick, 38, a computer systems training manager who works out six days a week and has sufficient stamina to lead back-to-back aerobics classes.
"I'm lucky to live in San Francisco, where there's a law to protect people like me." ''
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Unless you’re interviewing to be a personal trainer, this doesn’t really have any relevancy.
Like yes, be presentable, don’t be a slob. But you don’t have to be “fit” or “in good health” to land a job.