I had to Google Walter White. I like the idea, but I'm no "artist" with chemicals, plus I live within a 1000 feet of a school, a daycare and a church. Is that a double or a triple whammy? I forget.
My plan is to finish my current book during this year and get it into the hands of several agents and publishers, calling in a live's worth of favors, and then, toward the middle of next year, start freelance writing again. I want to see if I can live without a @#$%ing job.
And I won't cut my dreads unless I am about to be homeless. I have found that even in Wisconsin, where people are famous prudes, people don't think about my hair as long as I present myself the way I always have. If I walk into a situation feeling odd about it or like an outcast, then I surrender the upper hand before I have a have a chance to do whatever I set out to do.
Plus, my dreads are a year old now so they look pretty good. In another year, there wont be any fuzz at all on them. I've had dreads before, so I know a lot about them. Also, I dress in nice clothes and talk like the educated man I am, so I'm not too worried. I have the talk, and the experience to freelance since I have 300 clips, 270 of them were paying gigs too. I'm not worried about it too much, but itlnstln's advice is good and sound, and important for younger job seekers.
And on a final note, I DO SHOWER!!!! I hate this misconception and I blame it on rock stars and hippies. The science of dreadlocks is that hair locks together side by side, in parallel. It doesn't knot at all. Our heads, and by "our" I mean honkies, seep oil which is the biggest enemy of dreadlocks. It untangles the dreads and prevents locking of the individual hairs. I don't put any wax or anything else in hair because stuff like that is just a product like any other. Shampoo has wax in it. The reason for that is because it doesn't rinse out. So it collects gunk in it and makes your hair feel nasty so you have to buy more shampoo to wash it out.
I wash my dreads every time I shower with Ivory bar soap. My dreads are cleaner than most people's hair. They don't have a smell to them. And I don't wear Bob Marley t-shirts, Birkenstocks, or those stupid dreadlock Reggie hats. I wear $120 shoes, khakis and nice shirts. I really catch people off guard that way. Plus, I do not have the pothead laugh, though if anyone deserves too ...
So there you have it. My future plans and my hygiene regimen.