My husband is a big strong hairy guy in the military, and he said “sure!” He prefers sun dresses to winter dresses, he says. This cracked me up. For half a million, I’d be perfectly happy to be seen in public with him so embarrassingly attired.
What, like, a plaid skirt? Get sort of a ‘tartan’ thing going on?
I feel certain that the contract will disallow kilts, at least for Englishmen and Scots. Welshmen of course will not be invited.
I would do it, but only the last year of my career. I know my district would go ape-shit, so it’s better if I was retiring anyway.
The only question in my mind was “what is large”? $500,000 is indeed large. Put some lipstick on this pig, I’m ready to get fabulous … for that kind of money.
Um … would I have to shave my beard? People say it’s my best feature!
$500k is just barely past the threshold of “I’d do it.”
There’s a guy at work that wears heels and a dress every day and seemingly gets very little shit for it (and hasn’t been fired), so I wouldn’t be worried about that.
No need to shave your beard. It’s funnier if you have facial hair.
can you quit if you do a quitting dance video and post it? job offers will flow in instantly.
For half a mil? In a heartbeat.
I live in Boulder. I would not be the oddest looking person on the street. I’d probably have to shop at the big-and-tall transvestite store, but so be it. My wife would be greatly amused, and I work in a small office with a bunch of other software engineers who would cheer me on. The dress code here is “you must be dressed”.
One question: can I work out in regular shorts and tank or t-shirt at the gym? And I’ll have to have men’s workout shoes–I can’t imagine an athletic shoe company making men’s (American) size 13s in women’s styles. If I have to have custom-made athletic shoes, I will require a rider on the contract that Management must pay for them.
All that income in one or two years? There are limits to what an accountant can do, to the best of my limited knowledge.
Roddy
Boots only, no slit skirts(micro-minis negotiable), retail only.
Management’s purpose here is to oblige you to go out in public dressed as a woman. YouTube videos with your name attached are clearly in that vein, so have at it. You still can’t quit and live on the stipend, but since you’d certainly be allowed to quit if offered a better job, I don’t see why not.
I’ll rule that you’ll have to buy (or have custom tailored) workout clothing and shoes in a women’s style, if you want to go to the gym to work out. If you use your first-month’s payment to buy a home gym, you can do whatever you want.
And Management ain’t paying for those shoes, sorry, unless you want them coming out of your monthly stipend and amortized over the course of the year. Management does not believe that you won’t be able to afford to buy a couple of pairs of custom-made athletic shoes with an extra $10K a month to spend.
Are you just being frugal on the retail-only thing?
So I can’t dress like I ordinarily do and claim to be dressed as a woman who is very butch with very bad taste in clothing?
Suburban Plankton would so be doing this. An extra $10,000 a month would more than solve our money related problems. His office would totally allow it, too.
Oh, fine. Not dropping my gym membership. I love my gym. Getting the custom workout clothes would be worth it to see the reaction of my very sweet, extremely tough, former-college-hockey-playing, lesbian, personal trainer. She might even stop laughing long enough to get me through the workouts.
You know, as I–or, rather, Management–has given the matter further thought, as long as you’re dressed as a woman when you enter and leave the gym, it’s not a big deal how you dress during your workout. Make a good-faith effort on the clothes and Management will give you a buy on the shoes.
I’d do it but I’d probably be in the $500,000 after taxes camp. Actually it may be fun to do it and pretend like nothing is out of the ordinary.
Only if I get to wear hot sexy underwear.
I’d probably do it.
In fact, what I’d probably do is link to an awareness of women’s issues campaign, so I can be all moralistic about walking a year in a woman’s shoe. I’d even carry pamphlets and the like to clearly explain what I’m doing and why. I would have the $500,000 funneled through my new women’s-awareness non-profit, which could then pay for my expenses and dole out a salary over time to avoid the tax hit of earning it all in one year.
But I am going to insist on dressing more like a granola-loving, Birkenstocks-wearing, no-makeup kinda woman. It’ll be women’s clothing, but it will not be pink or have high heels.