Cyber Concerns

Jackie -- and some others, but especially Jackie -- has warned me about my blog.  Her concern is that potential employers will find it, and they may not like my politics, and they may really not like what I have to say about the real-life Dilbert scenarios I observe in working environments.  The truth is that I don't want to be silenced by fear, but what I usually say is that it would be hard to connect me to my blog, because I don't attach my full name to the blog or my posts.

Of course, it's wise to test that claim.  I Googled "[My Name]"* a few months back, and my blog was not on the first page, but it showed up a few pages into the search results.  The reason for that is that I posted my resume, back in April of last year, not long after I left my job at Farmers, and of course it has my name on it.  At the time, I just filed that information away.  No need to be too paranoid.

Yesterday I went into my blog and posted something for the first time in over a month.  I noticed that I still was getting a fair number of hits.  And the post with the most page views from the last week?  That post of my resume from April 2, 2012.

So who in hell is looking at my resume within my blog?  And why?  And how did they find it?  Was someone really curious enough about me to Google my name and click on my blog link?  11 times in the last month?

So this is a concern.  I kind of like that post because it's called "Contact" and has a nice picture of an array of dishes pointing to space, but I don't want it to be easy for employers to find this blog.  Maybe I can just change the name on the resume to "Mickey Mouse."  One way or another, I have to fix that.

*First pass, I actually wrote my name there.  That would have been kind of stupid.