toes - make up your own mind but think it through. The job opportunities point is valid in some areas of work. If you hold hopes of going into professional services where you have to present to clients, ink is better in non visible places. A (young) colleague here at work had to get a skin-coloured elastic sleeve to cover his ink. He's an IT person with no client-facing role but has to manage assets on our client floor. A neck tattoo that couldn't have been concealed would have lost him the job opportunity.
If you're mates are saying go for it, I would assume they already have large, visible tattoos and so know what they're talking about. If not, then think twice about whether their opinions should carry weight in your decision.
I don't have and wouldn't get a tattoo, so I won't give you my opinion on your choice. In a job interview, I would certainly wonder about the judgement of someone with a large tattoo like you're describing and it could be a differentiator if I had two otherwise equal candidates to choose between. In saying this, wearing an earring didn't prevent me getting a well paid job in a professional firm, 20 years ago (but I also wasn't starting on my career path, by a long shot).
Just make sure the Taipans are never going to change their name! After all, a bunch of clubs have previously: Sydney (Supersonics/Kings), Hawks (Wollongong/Illawarra), Townsville (Suns/Crocs), Gold Coast (Rollers/Blaze), etc.