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Originally Posted by abaya
...snipI guess I'm really not very good at segregating different parts of my personality... I've always kind of struggled with that. I am who I am who I am. So I guess that's the main reason I'm not terribly interested in working to create another persona elsewhere.
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I've tried that and it's very hard to do.
No matter what name I use, I am who I am. Some don't care for the bluntness, the shortcomings. Oh well. It's not worth trying to invent a persona, really. At some point, it's lying and it's found out.
There's a difference, I think, in having a professional life and a personal one and in keeping them as seperate entities; I have a friend, a well-respected high ranking person in an international company who is covered in tats, has piercings, engages in an 'alternate lifestyle'(not gay, but 'dfferent'), but his career doesn't mesh/intermingle with his personal life unless he meets someone he's interested in while working.
Of course, the internet is not a career unless you make it so. Since it's not for me, I don't find it necessary to invent; withold information, maybe, but not invent it.