The people at this place I worked at last year for Christmas didn't like the idea that I hate makeup and fancy clothes. This one in particular who drove me home kept offering to give me a makeover. It made me feel like I was in high school again. I ignored her because I'm happy wearing sweats.
She said that jobs won't hire me looking the way I do. (I'm really clean and neat, I just wear comfortable stuff), or that I won't be taken seriously at all.

Why is it assumed that women in particular should wear these things or spend a lot of time on the way they look? I'm in my 20's but I have dressed this way since I was 8.