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“Wow, JD, your last blog post was back in July ‘07. What’s up with that?”
I heeded some sage advice from someone I trust and hold in very high regard (my wife) during my recent job search and disabled my blog. Why? Her thinking was that if I was interviewing at some conservative/old school company and they read my blog posts where I lament about the problems with the search or frustrations with my work it might reflect as a weakness on me. Would it? Really? I don’t know. But, it wasn’t worth the risk.
Well, I now have a new job that is an amazing fit and is with a technically progressive organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I would tend to think my blog (if anyone stumbled upon it) wouldn’t cause me problems there. It’s not like I bash my employers or anything, and I like to think higher education institutions will be pretty hip to the free speech thing. Besides, I moaned and complained much more about my job hunt saga on Facebook and everyone in my network could read that (oops on the privacy settings).
So my blog is back, and I hope to be writing again soon for both of the people who sometimes check in on my blog.
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