Occupation?

Those of us who are committed cross-dressers span a vast social and economic plane. Looking at our posts, I noticed most of us are older and/or retired. I'm just curious what is your occupation, and are you able to express even the slightest bit of your femininity at work?
Lisa

At a minimum, I am always underdressed, work or not.

I'm an engineer and underdressing is as far as I can go.

I will go here as well it's like this!
In my paid work life no one was game to say anything to me as they didn't have what it took to do my job!

48 now, Retired 10 yrs back and do volunteer work!
I'm quite at ease in my general life and working at the soup kitchen, no-one cares what I look like (Ok my wife does) I put food on the plate and talk with people more messed up than I am! so I can more than express myself there!

The issue for me is that with summer coming on here being asked to teach swimming to the 3-10yr olds (I don't charge) I for some reason must present more masculine. Doesn't concern me, It's just me!

Still me on the inside!
Stacy!

Retired, Retired. Electronics, medic, illustrator, artist, photographer. Now doing home photo restorations. also a writer.

Lisa,
I was a self employed photographer for thirty years , I called it a day when digital crept in and took the professionalism out of it . So many abilities are being lost now and Photoshop doesn't have all the answers .

I came out to my wife in my forties but had been a CDer since the age of 8. I would spend hours in my colour darkroom which gave me the ideal situation to dress , so I wasn't so much stuck in the closet as the darkroom .

The real plus side was handling all those lovely gowns in the course of my work, my secret desire was to be one of the bridesmaids , they had the most fun at weddings .

Older, but not retired. Simply cannot afford to! Dress normally at work, and the closest I get to 'underdressing' is having painted toenails! lol!

engineer here and I do underdress

I am retired. I was a Systems engineer and global expert.

Retired military and now working towards my second retirement as a civil engineer
V

Full time retired person. When i worked, i would underdress and keep pedi with color all the time.

Atb 75 I am retired from 3 professions. All were highly public and I was well known in each, thus will not revel exactly what they were. I have had a very good life and started dressing during the 3rd career and have loved it ever since.

Occupation: paralegal
Femme @ work: no way

IT engineering consultant. I have the longest hair in the office, I paint my long nails (lightly colored clearcoat), wear rings, bracelets & earrings and I underdress. The rest is usually the 'consultant uniform' of slacks and a button-down shirt, though my 'socks' are usually colored & patterned, and you can be certain it matches my top. If I didn't need to meet with clients, I could probably do more. I do occasionally slip in women's slacks and button down tops, and I don't believe anyone has even noticed.

I'm one of three LGBT people in my small office of 20 or so. We picked up on each other immediately. The powers that be *better* know I'm LGBT, or they are blind.

- MM

I'm 55, and in outside sales in the same industry for over 25 years. It's more relationship based selling, primarily working with women. I don't underdress and am not in a position to express my femininity in any way, other than the way I cross my legs.

I was a police photographer for the best part of 26 years but in the end the sights the smells and death and destruction were too much for and I was forced to retire on medical grounds (stress and depression) 39 hours overtime in one weekend was the straw that broke the camels back I left and never worked again depression plagued me for many years and even now I get flash backs but not so many as before because dressing has brought me the solace and comfort I need even after 2 divorces on top. There is peace to be found within our community.

Professional, in a shirt and tie sort of environment. I don’t underdress but when I’m in casual attire, some of my clothes are from the women’s section. It’s not that I wear them because they’re women’s clothes. They just fit me better and I like them more. For instance, my gym shoes are all women’s.

The only thing that creeps up from my cd'ing to my normal life is the eyebrows. They’re trimmed and a bit femininity but they’re not too thin. I also got electrolysis a few years ago so I hardly have any facial hair.

Semi-retired nurse-LPN. Male attire but pearl earrings and right now blue fingernails and toenails! Not really out at work! It keeps them guessing!! Hugs Lana Mae

Financial drone by day, musician by night. I underdressed as much as I can for my day job, and it's always dress down on Fridays so I can go in fairly androgynous. Oddly enough, it was only yesterday that my work colleagues first saw me in makeup. It was just a bit of eyeliner and mascara for our night out, but it was a start with no negative comments. I even got drawn into a conversation about makeup with a few of the women, and one said I was more girly than her! I just laughed and said "you have no idea!".
If I'm playing a gig I can get away with it I mix things up a bit more.

Former construction worker, do building maintenance now. Always underdressed.

CNC Programmer for aerospace company

I am a retired deputy sheriff. Worked 30 years as a deputy. When I retired I hired on to a local school district. I now work security at a junior high school.

Bobbi46....... yes, there is peace here.

Lace and Smiles
Lisa

Car sales person. Usually drab, other than panties and polished toes. Some of my slacks are femme but

I am an auto technician for over 30 years. Definitely underdressed almost every day, painted toenails. At least for the last 7 months since I have allowed me to start to be who I am.

Professional female impersonator and no I'm not allowed to cross dress at work. Not really, just wanted a different answer than everyone else. ;)

I am nearing retirement as a facilities project manager and do under-dress a lot, not all the time though. I do more in winter when clothes are thicker and hide the straps and things. I do love those Spanx under garments.

I work for the worlds largest airline. Will let you guys figure that out.
Being now out as transgender yes Rachael is now going to work so yes I do without a doubt
Rachael

Former over the road truck driver/owner operator.
Owned my own trucks for years hauling coal in Eastern Ky and W VA.
Retired from a large trucking firm in 2015
Now I am a guitar repair technician and roadie for a rock band.

I am in quality assurance for a large machine shop making parts for a large airplane manufacturer. Can you guess which one? I knew you could. I've been wearing panties for years now and my fingernails are painted all the time.

College student, tutor, and son to be teacher :)

I am a self employed contractor, and being feminine at work would not go over well for me, so I reserve my cross dressing for my private time.

I work in a fairly technical field. It is very PC and I am certain that if I wanted to come to work in a dress that would be fine. However my work contributes to society and has attained a certain level of recognition, and that is what I want to be remembered for, not being the guy who wore a dress to work. So the restriction is self-inflicted. I have it OK - I spend most of my time fully dressed, without makeup or a wig simply because I don't like them. No complaints about limitations here then. It is just the times I have to bee seen in public that require male clothing and that is not a great deal as I often work from home.

Accounting has been and still is my life. As a salaried employee I under-dressed all the time but outwardly there was no sign.
Redundant the day before my 50th birthday I vowed to never work in the corporate scene again.
Since then I have stopped worrying about my outward "male" persona, threw away my suit and tie and have helped many small traders with their business and tax.

Retired Professional Sailor.

I was military also, active and reserve for 20+ years.

Underdressed at work for more years than I can count.

I am the maintenance guy for a property management company.I only wear women's clothes. The same clothes that any woman would wear to do the work that I do.
One day in the winter, my boss tried to crack a joke about me wearing my girlfriends boots. It was snowing and I was wearing women's black snow boots. I thought they looked pretty unisex at best. Nothing about them looked women's.
Anyway the point of my story is. I'm standing there in a woman's denim parka, women's jeans with leggings underneath, a woman's tee shirt, under a woman's sweat shirt. Of course wearing panties and a sports bra, all he notices or says anything about was my boots.

Occupation? Hmmmm. I've been a Law Officer, Mail carrier, construction worker, clerk (office & retail), R.E. agent, and currently, fork lift operator in a warehouse.
I always have long painted nails (clear coat), toes (coloured), femme underwear, and have added earrings.

That is a hoot Lisa.
I LOLd when I read that because I had a friend say something about a pair of girls work boots I had on one winter.
The Camo coat with sheep's wool collar, my jeans sweatshirt and gloves were all from the ladies dept.LOLOL
He later on down the road asked me why I had girls boots on and I said because they fit and they were on sale.

Retired CPA who worked at a publicly traded company.

Underdressed at times, generally only panties (depending on whether I went to the Y in the morning before work or not).

35 years telco data install/repair. i took care of 911 answer sites, water service districts, beach lifeguard towers, telemetry for military and faa. retired after 35 years. (knees finally told me to do so.) So i guess i was a real life 'pole dancer'!

home now for 3 years, wife still lets me sleep inside! old cars, model railroad soon, and am a chidren's performer with puppets and story telling.
very few times did i under dress, but i did keep a bra in the work truck to slip on whenever i was on a mountain top!

I'm a retired teacher. I spent 35 years teaching High School and 5 years more at a Community College. I regularly underdressed for at least 20 years of that time.

Journeyman machinist/tool and die maker for 30 plus years. Not retired yet but getting close. No underdressing for me--EVER.
Jon

Awwww... sorry JoniT!!!!!!

IT network security consultant. I've underdressed every day for the last several years. Finger nails are getting longer with clear polish. I go to the gym at work and run errands wearing my girl sneakers, yoga pants and top.

Retired Engineer. In my professional life there was too much going on in a fairly high visibility position. Integrating any obvious femininity would have just complicated an already too stressful environment. Since retirement, I don't miss the stress, but I do miss many of the people. I was once called out by a female co-worker when I put my signature to something for her and she looked at it and exclaimed, "That's a woman's handwriting". I just smiled and thought ,"If you only knew."

Still working
Occupation?????
Can I dress at work?NO!
I will not be accepted

My job has a uniform the is paramilitary so no dressing at work and if the people I interact with knew of my dressing, doing my job would be near impossible. 95% wouldn't be able to wrap their archaic brains around that idea. Oddly I totally love the work I do, very varied, very fulfilling, scary at times and very challenging.
Curiously enough, I also used to do hair and I loved that too, just couldn't pay my bills very well that way and no benefits either. Talk about extremes in one brain?

Retired from chemical engineering 20 years ago. Have had a pet store with my daughter for the past ten years "working" a few hours per day most days. Keeps me socialized. Passable skinny jeans, shorts and shoes most days. And of course, panties.

Metrologist/Electronic Technician for over 37 years, I have been working solely as a Metrologist at a large science and technology development company for the last 10 plus years. I have been wearing panties to work for the better part 30 years.Women's jeans for the last few years I could underdress more if I wanted to.

Most of my work life has been as an Industrial Electrician, which was in a "man's" world with some really macho guys. I under-dressed for most of that time, it could have been messy if anyone found out.