Careers with body mods?

Your biggest challenges would be:

1. Getting accepted as a volunteer to get your volunteer / shadow experience necessary to apply for an OT school. I recommend a large hospital that has a volunteer program rather than small clinics for this in your case. Or having good friends in the healthcare field that can recommend you to OTs for you to shadow.

2. Getting recommendations to go to occupational therapy school. You will most likely need these from an OT and one or two instructors - per school you apply to. If they don't like your look, they may be hesitant to recommend you.

3. Passing the occupational therapy school interview. You may have better luck in state schools in liberal areas and private, for profit, non-religious schools. Consider University of Southern California as an option. It is in a large, urban area, likes to have people from different backgrounds, and has a very large admitting class (it is also very expensive.) Another option is to apply to schools which do not require interviews.

4. Getting a job may be challenging. Try doing your clinicals at places you would eventually like to work, so they can get to know you. You will most likely have to take out most of your facial piercings, as those are very distracting to many people. You could open up your own practice - but that is expensive and very hard. You could also work as a traveling therapist. They will have no idea who you are until you arrive!

Any career that deals with the body for example any thing in the medical field has a natural affinity to tattoos. As any conservative career is also OK, because ironically people in conservative careers wear much more clothes that hide all their tattoos. I know a female lawyer with a full bodysuit.