I'll shave off my moustache when I get a GF

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You never know wether a beard will help you or not in the long run.

My whole family complained about my beard for a year and a half(yes I kept my beard for over a year with some trimming).

In the middle of their complaints there was a filming of a hollywood movie in my city and they needed extras.
As it turns out I passed every casting just because I had a beard for over a year since the role required it and everyone was proud to see I was chosen over 4000 applicants(they advertised the castings on just about every local newspaper).
There were no more complaints about my beard from then on

So I say keep it if you are happy

Beards are the best, I could see myself playing as Hercules or some other mythological Greek God in a Hollywood film.

I landed my first job after college because I had a beard.

I was interviewing with the head of the department when his boss stuck his head in the door. The head of the department said he was interviewing an applicant for the open position and his boss said, "He's got a beard, hire him".

I got the job.

I thought he was joking about the beard part, but I found out later that the beard was precisely why I got the job. Just about everyone else in the department had a beard and so he thought I'd fit in better. He later said that when the candidates for a job all pretty much have the same skills, then you pick some arbitrary criteria that may have nothing to do with anything and hire the one who best conforms to that arbitrary criteria. In my case, the other candidate for the job and I had both just graduated and we had the same degrees from different colleges so they couldn't decide anything based on that. So they based it on beards -- I had a beard and the other guy didn't.

This thread has kinda run it's course w/ the few options that could play out w/ regards to the OP's moustache.. so, just carrying on with the highjacking.

I grew a full beard out for a few months or so a couple years back as I was a groomsman in a Sikh wedding and wore a Punjabi suit & turban and the whole nine. After that I kept just a goatee for the spring/summer and let it grow out for the hockey playoffs. It was probably around 6" long or so and was just kinda fun/different to have. Whether with the full beard or goatee, I certainly got different looks from people... for the most part, other white people looked at me like I was a crackhead thief, while Indian Sikhs complimented my beard and said I looked so good and should keep it. (devout Sikhs do not shave.) Cultural differences played a huge part in their perceptions for sure. Then the goatee got some different looks here and there, too, but all I had to say was that I was keeping it through the end of the playoffs (even though I'm not really a fan) and no one really cared so much anymore - but a few older people did still comment and say that it made me look like an "undesirable," rough sort of character and that they thought I should get rid of it. Luckily for me I didn't give a s**t what they thought & didn't have a job that required me to be clean shaven for the sake of others' perceptions in a sales/customer service role or anything.

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Dye it purple or green, it will attract interest from different women!
Then you can offer to change colour or style if they date you....

I've been with girls who loved the beard, and some that hated it... I go back and forth.

@OP I used to think it's more like the other way round. You could, however, still use it as a bribe; tell any girl you meet you'll shave it off as soon as she starts going out with you. One day it'll have to work.

Nobody should ever even consider growing one. //shudder

Well, if you decide to keep it, you could move to my area and try to pick up Amish chicks ... just kidding.

I say, if you like it, then keep it and, if you don't, then shave it off. Different women are attracted to different features and you can't please everyone.

I had a beard once. It was OK, but it's just one more thing to take care of. Then again, so is shaving I suppose. Mustaches, though... well, I think there are very few people who can successfully pull off the 'stache without looking like a child molester. I don't know what you look like but chances are pretty good that you should probably shave it.