I was recently looking at working full time for a few DZ's and one mentioned that I needed to buy a jumpsuit in their DZ colors in order to get into the work rotation. Quick math was showing that I would need to get pants for tandems and a camera jacket at least in their DZ colors. To do AFF they were even asking to have JM's in suits so that was looking at a third suit since I do it in my shorts and shirt now. DZ was offering to pass on the discount that they got from the jumpsuit maker but I am looking at several hundred dollars to a thousand dollars in gear just to get started and since its pretty specific colors I'm not sure next year I could jump the gear at other DZ's if I move on. Is this pretty common where you have to do a buy in to get the DZ's jumpsuits or is this one just different or is getting a cut off the suits? Could I deduct this if I get it for taxes?
