My haircut is like PROD. Not gonna put an intern on it. :P

Until last month, I hadn't gotten a paid haircut since the start of the pandemic. Got a decent pair of clippers with a taper guard, and did "okay" except for the edging on the back, which I learned to just not worry about (though my wife has done it a couple of times, and it comes out decent then)

If you have a baseball cap you can hold the brim (pointed down!) against the back of your neck and trim along it for something half decent :)

Great tip - I'll have to try that

It would be easier if we could reject bad hair pull requests.

You can consider the last two years to be a staging environment, depending on your industry.

Made that mistake once, never again

“Soon after that I started going to therapy. Someone told me that New York University was offering talk therapy on a pay-what-you-can basis. They charged less because the therapists were all in training. It was like barber school: you show up, they randomly assign a young therapist to you, and he or she starts giving your mental health a crude, halting trim. If this does not sound appealing to you, you are wrong. You should always pay full price for a haircut, but if you have a chance to buy discount therapy you should grab it, because the markup on that shit is insane.”

— John Hodgman, Vacationland

It really depends on what you get done. I could probably do my own with a set of sheers and an extra mirror to get the back :) .