I ran into a former student the other day. She’s the kind of kid that it’s easy to make assumptions about. She has flaming fuchsia and kool-aid orange hair. She has about a dozen extraneous holes around her face, some half an inch around. Her arms are an art canvas. At age twenty-two she’s demonstating a seriously colourful personality (though I assure you, she was pretty colourful at sixteen, as well).
So what would you think of her if you saw her on the street? Rough kid? Loser? Street kid?
It might surprise you that though she looks like she’s out on the fringes, she has well-paying job, and you probably would not be shocked that it’s in a piercing place, but would you be surprised to know that she has had an apprenticeship and has been working in her trade since she was 18? Would you be surprised to know that at age 22 she owns her own house, mortgage free?
She may look like a rebellious teeny-bopper, but there’s a lot of sense and responsibility under all that colour. She’s not the first kid I’ve known whose outward face belies amazing brain power. Here’s to those visually non-conformists who show remarkable financial sense. They’re puncturing holes in stereotypes, one piercing at a time.
Shawn L. Bird 
appearances February 9, 2011
Tags: postaday2011
I ran into a former student the other day. She’s the kind of kid that it’s easy to make assumptions about. She has flaming fuchsia and kool-aid orange hair. She has about a dozen extraneous holes around her face, some half an inch around. Her arms are an art canvas. At age twenty-two she’s demonstating a seriously colourful personality (though I assure you, she was pretty colourful at sixteen, as well).
So what would you think of her if you saw her on the street? Rough kid? Loser? Street kid?
It might surprise you that though she looks like she’s out on the fringes, she has well-paying job, and you probably would not be shocked that it’s in a piercing place, but would you be surprised to know that she has had an apprenticeship and has been working in her trade since she was 18? Would you be surprised to know that at age 22 she owns her own house, mortgage free?
She may look like a rebellious teeny-bopper, but there’s a lot of sense and responsibility under all that colour. She’s not the first kid I’ve known whose outward face belies amazing brain power. Here’s to those visually non-conformists who show remarkable financial sense. They’re puncturing holes in stereotypes, one piercing at a time.
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