A woman with 800 tattoos says she’s struggling to find gainful employment because bosses cast judgment on her inked-up appearance.
Melissa Sloan, 46, who hails from Wales in the United Kingdom, previously had a job cleaning toilets but says she hasn’t been able to find a similar gig because of the art that adorns her face and body.
“I can’t get a job,” Sloan bluntly told the Daily Star. “I applied for a job cleaning toilets where I live, and they won’t have me because of my tattoos.
“People have said I have never had a job in my life, but I have had one once and it didn’t last long,” the mother-of-two added. “If someone offered me a job tomorrow, I would go and work – I would take that offer.”
People have said I have never had a job in my life, but I have had one once and it didn’t last long,” the mother-of-two added. “If someone offered me a job tomorrow, I would go and work – I would take that offer.”
Sloan first started getting tattoos at the age of 20 and quickly became hooked. Despite her struggles with employment, the Welshwoman said, she still gets as many as three new inkings each week, describing herself as “addicted.
Still, the defiant tattoo lover isn’t backing down and is determined to ink one record — employment be damned. I’d like to be a record holder, it’s just something different,” she declared. “I’m trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
