What do you do?
Sometimes it’s cool when people post blogs about their jobs. People spend a lot of time at work and it helps to understand something about a person once you know what they do.
I have so far chosen not to put too much about my family and job online. This is because I have a fairly high profile job. That’s not to say I am hugely important, but I am the “Head of X” for the “World’s Largest X” and I work in the media and the company is well known. I’m sure YOU’RE fine, but if someone reading this who doesn’t like the company I work for (and for reasons I don’t fully understand, there are a lot) then this site might get a lot of publicity and that would defeat the point of this site. I say “might” because I really don’t think that would happen.
I love my job and there are lots of good blogs written by people who like their jobs. Some folks who include their jobs in blogs don’t write about them exclusively - I think those “Confessions of an Air-con Salesman” blogs are boring. If I was that interested in your job, I would have become one myself.
But it’s cool when people drop in what they’ve been up to at work. I’ve never been great with the whole professional/personal balance, so I keep it separate. Here are some people who are better at it than me:
Bonnie, The Hollywood Insider
PC Anonymous, The Policeman
Jill Twiss, The Standup Comedian
Bob Mould, Musician and DJ
Fine blogs all. Hurrah. At some point I might reveal what I do, to regular posters and stuff. It’s really not that great. No one who discovers what I do says, “Oh my God! You’re THAT guy?!?!?” or anything. At best someone might say “I always wondered who did that, it sounds cool”. And yeah, it kind of is. Maybe I’m being cagey because the people who also work here at the “World’s Largest X” might not feel comfortable with themselves being in a blog.
Anyway, I’ve said too much, once again. Please excuse me before I tell you who I actually work for. I have to go now and stand over here and look for something.
(turns and looks conspicuous by giving something relatively trivial unwarranted attention in the hope that the concern might draw away from the mild embarassment at having given to much away)