I know how she feels.I waiver between who cares what people think to ‘oh my god I’m making myself unemployable!)
My Phd is on portrait prints in later 17th-century London.
As for making yourself unemployable, I would not worry too much. It may indeed get you into some political troubles, but I’ve been speaking my mind for ever and I’m still doing quite fine and my colleagues like me and so on. There is no doubt that I paid a price for it, but then, if you never want to upset anyone, you might as well being ready to settle for very little, because the mere fact that you may succeed in some small way in the future will get some people jealous, upset.
Let’s face it: if you make something of yourself, in whatever way, some people will try to take it away from you. Better get used to standing your ground.
nantelsays:
Found your blog through yulbog and my eye immediately caught the NRC acronym since it’s my employer as well (the BRI to be more specific). I don’t worry too much about the content of my writings since mine’s a photoblog.
Daniel Lemiresays:
Well, the government or any university would have a hard time censoring or going after one of their employees for the content of their blog. It might cut your chances of getting a job, I’m sure it happens, but once you have the job, it is really hard and counterproductive to try to make people stop thinking about what they do and writting about it. It probably applies to all jobs as well.
Beside, if an employer wanted to fire me because of my blog, I’d leave willingly.
As for getting the job in the first place, if the employer doesn’t like my blog, they probably wouldn’t like me, so fair is fair.
I know how she feels.I waiver between who cares what people think to ‘oh my god I’m making myself unemployable!)
My Phd is on portrait prints in later 17th-century London.
Ok, changed the description beside your link.
As for making yourself unemployable, I would not worry too much. It may indeed get you into some political troubles, but I’ve been speaking my mind for ever and I’m still doing quite fine and my colleagues like me and so on. There is no doubt that I paid a price for it, but then, if you never want to upset anyone, you might as well being ready to settle for very little, because the mere fact that you may succeed in some small way in the future will get some people jealous, upset.
Let’s face it: if you make something of yourself, in whatever way, some people will try to take it away from you. Better get used to standing your ground.
Found your blog through yulbog and my eye immediately caught the NRC acronym since it’s my employer as well (the BRI to be more specific). I don’t worry too much about the content of my writings since mine’s a photoblog.
Well, the government or any university would have a hard time censoring or going after one of their employees for the content of their blog. It might cut your chances of getting a job, I’m sure it happens, but once you have the job, it is really hard and counterproductive to try to make people stop thinking about what they do and writting about it. It probably applies to all jobs as well.
Beside, if an employer wanted to fire me because of my blog, I’d leave willingly.
As for getting the job in the first place, if the employer doesn’t like my blog, they probably wouldn’t like me, so fair is fair.