Re: Warning: your posts can be googled

["ElsaHaas" <ElsaHaas@si.rr.com>]

For anybody who missed it, I was the one who started this thread, by
pointing out that if a prospective employer, or the committee selling you a
coop apartment, googles your name, posts to this list/message board might
pop up (and somebody had recently used the f-word, which - taken out of
context - could become a problem). 

I don't know about you, Laurel, but I've had to take some jobs I didn't
really want a few times in my life just in order to be able to keep going
until the next job I did want opened up. 

I say that as someone who has worked in decidedly non-mainstream places, too
- including a homeschooling magazine, a breadbaking commune in Spain, an
organic farm apprenticeship, etc. - and who has done lots of volunteer work
I believed in.

But (for example) that awful job in the bathroom fixtures store sure helped
me out of a jam once after a bad bike accident left me in no shape to work
for a couple of months and put me in debt. I didn't go into the interview
for that job with curses falling out of my mouth as readily as they might
among friends. And these days Google is sometimes the equivalent of a job
interview.    

I mentioned the co-op because a friend of mine, who homeschools, is trying
to buy a co-op apartment in Brooklyn with her husband, and the application
form asks them to list the children "proposed" to live in the apartment and
the schools they attend. So we got into a conversation recently about
whether it's even legal for that to be on such a form, and whether it makes
sense to attach something to the application that shows that homeschooling
is legal, since most of the other owners in the building are from Russia and
might be even less likely to know that this is true than your average New
Yorker.

I was just trying to let people who might be looking for a job, etc.,
sometime within the next twenty years (or forever) know that whatever they
say here and now might come back to haunt them. If you're already retired,
or if you live off an annuity or a trust fund, or if you've built your own
house and established your own farmstead and know how to do it all over
again (without having to buy any land or tools) if you lose everything in a
flood or whatever, then this might not apply to you.

Meanwhile, I censor myself a bit on a list like this, but not in
conversation with friends. So I don't think I'm living in fear.     

Elsa Haas      

-----Original Message-----
From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org [mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org] On
Behalf Of Laurelathome@cs.com
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 12:41 AM
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: Re: [arn-l] Warning: your posts can be googled

Would you really want the job or the co-op if using the f word could lose
it? 
 Why scare yourself and censor yourself with crap like that?