Barefoot-Friendly Jobs

• Anything you can do as a self-employed person
• Computer hardware and/or software engineering and related jobs — many high-tech employers are very relaxed about dress
• Anything you can do working from your own home — Internet or telephone support/marketing, mail stuffing, etc.
• Anything having to do with swimming — groundskeeper, lifeguard, instructor
• Marine research or trainer/performer at an aquarium show
• Truck driver owner-operator
• Telephone call center
• Hospitality, especially smaller inns and hostels
• Jobs at colleges and universities
• In general, small businesses, such as independent retailers (not franchises or chains), are more barefoot tolerant than larger employers

Remember, OSHA only regulates footwear for employees in special circumstances, when there is a real danger to feet in the work environment.

Similarly, SBL members who are involved in business insurance report that they have never encountered a policy that does not permit bare feet. In fact, they never mention feet at all!