4th April, 2008
This Is When I Do Some Thinking
Not that I don’t do it everyday, but this time, I took some time to write stuff. I haven’t been writing as often in my journal (my actual, tangible, paper one) as much as I’d like, but I wrote a bit this week and plan to bring it up later to my doctor.
I’ve been thinking, and I due owe this one to my doctor, of marketing myself as a web developer. Now, I say developer because I am much more confident in my web coding skills than I am in creating a design. If I could do both, I would be a web designer, no? So I thought about making some business cards for myself in order to pass them out to small businesses around my college town that might need a revamp or a new design. A nail salon I go to sometimes has a website up, but all it’s primarily made up of images. Yes, the text are in the images. So say, someone who can’t read well or is blind will not be able to access this site, which is quite unfortunate.
But then I was also thinking that on this card of mine, I need to list a website so they can see what kind of work I do and of course, the only website I have for now is my personal one, which is not all too professional. And that leads to my having to think of a nice name to market. My other dilemma is this: on the card, it will have my real name, but if you all know by now, I don’t like to have my real name online except for Facebook and MySpace, both of which are private. So if I create my professional website, what name do I go under? Or on the card, should I also put my alias name? Kind of near the bottom with the words, “Also known as Maria Boscardin” so that way, online, I can leave that name and be okay?
Sure, if you know where to dig and dig well enough, you can find me in real life, but I’d rather not have that done. It’s kind of scary that someone could find me, you know? I guess it stems from that fear that there are crazy stalkers and whatnot. Then there’s the whole identity theft wave that’s here. I just want less stress.
But as I was talking to MH about this, he says that it’s all about quality control. He’s trying to put himself in the music business and actually has a website, music MySpace, and all that jazz. However, he has to get rid of his blog because he doesn’t want it to be traced back to him. Except you know me, I can’t not blog and I can’t censor myself like so. Sure, I know not to pose in racy and sexual poses for pictures and I know not to swear like a sailor, but again, having the feeling of anonymity helps me feel better about posting.
That and in the event my dad ever feels like Googling me… he can’t find this website.
Tags: doctor, MH, work
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