After some thought, I decided that I would make this blog more anonymous, since I am currently unemployed and it is becoming increasingly common for prospective employers to search the net for any blogs or MySpace entries for insight into the candidates mind. Therefore, I changed the posting and the URL to reflect my Hispanic origin, yet "gringo" lifestyle. So I had to change a few things, most notably the URL to the photo on my profile page, which earlier pointed to my personal website. But if someone really wanted to, it wouldn't be too difficult to connect the dots...
I am kind of ambivalent about the thought of employers checking out their employees on the net. I guess there are situations where a company is protecting it's best interests (e.g. offering insights into closely guarded projects or the like), but I am not too sure if I agree with prospective employers taking the initiative and checking out their applicants. What could be revealed that a prospective employer cannot already figure out during the application and interview process? Most are background-checked, credit-checked (another sore point with me), tested for drugs, and interviewed. What does a MySpace entry have to do with the ability to do the job? (Sigh!) I am an adult, and realize that it really doesn't matter. If an employer has personal predjudices or an axe to grind, and has the opportunity to prevent a homosexual or a Jew or a Young Republican from joining the ranks by investigating their profiles on social network sites, (s)he is going to do it. And although I have Googled myself and have come up with nothing except a guestbook entry I left in a Colombian singer's site, I am not going to take a chance.
And you know what? I was thinking that maintaining a blog on "Blogger" is probably "so yesterday", but I just cannot bring myself to creating a MySpace account. It seems (IMHO) to be mostly populated by pre-teens and adults whose mental faculties are about that of a pre-teen. Also, I can't write in the terribly stupid lingo where you DRoP dA VoWLz n spL LiKe SHiT N U sez NiGGaZ n HOeS LoTZ N LoTZ. It isn't as creative or "cool" as l337... it's just ignorant.
Damn, forty is just around the corner. How the hell did that happen?
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selection copied from Mitch's Web Page, somewhere not here
Mitchie said, "While I have a firmly established belief system and a solid core of values and morals, I find it difficult to immediately take a steadfast position or succumb to knee-jerk reactions. I must first analyze and consider, and if I have time, do a little research. In my late teens and early adulthood, I knew everything...or at least so I thought. Now I know nothing. I fear that by the time I reach my "golden years", I will be unable to make the simplest of decisions ("Eat breakfast or BM?") without sitting down to consider the ramifications and questioning my impartiality in making an impartial decision, until finally I am reduced to a babbling idiot. This is why, I believe, that I am a Republican and a Conservative. My youthful ideals have been replaced by the (sometimes harsh) realities that life presents through direct experience"
But Damn it, Mitch, A REPUBLICAN???
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