Just seconding this. For context I work not in academia but as a software engineer and data scientist in London.
I usually have crazy sticky-up hair that sort of does different things each day especially as it grows. That’s my main superficial weirdness (unless you count the unusually big nose) though I have plenty of other quirks which are harder to label and harder to spot from a distance.
In hindsight I think the hair has made me memorable and recognisable in my workplaces (e.g. people have expressed looking forward to seeing me and my hair in meetings...), and since I’m also reasonably agreeable and competent, I suspect this memorableness has ultimately been net useful for networking (which is useful because networking hasn’t historically come naturally to me).
Just seconding this. For context I work not in academia but as a software engineer and data scientist in London.
I usually have crazy sticky-up hair that sort of does different things each day especially as it grows. That’s my main superficial weirdness (unless you count the unusually big nose) though I have plenty of other quirks which are harder to label and harder to spot from a distance.
In hindsight I think the hair has made me memorable and recognisable in my workplaces (e.g. people have expressed looking forward to seeing me and my hair in meetings...), and since I’m also reasonably agreeable and competent, I suspect this memorableness has ultimately been net useful for networking (which is useful because networking hasn’t historically come naturally to me).