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When side-jobs hurt your chances.. |
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trust has not value? :) |
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07/30/2004 |
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Yes, you are going to have trouble! Look at it from the Employer's perspective who knows or who will soon get to know that you are a Writer who can report things to the Media etc. You are viewed as "uncontrollable" and potential Employers don't like that, because they wonder what you'll be "up to" next. I would suggest you take a Penmame for your writing job, but then again if you don't want to work for someone who has something to worry about then by all means don't! Forget'em and work for someone who is a great Employer or make writing your fulltime job. You seem to have many talents which MUST have an outlet disregardless of whether anyone else approves of them or not! Do find a way to fully express these talents no matter what comes your way....otherwise you'll wish you had later on! Don't resort to that common practise of cheating yourself. |
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macromaniac, thanks for your note! and you bring up a very important issue -- trust.
i agree with your point on the surface, which is what i feared quite frankly. however, let met ask this... i was at ibm 9 years. i supported three executives during that time and as part of my job i gathered competitive information. leave it there. ;)
i've never leaked that information -- nor would i. if i did i know what circumstances would result -- and really, no harm would come to me other than being blacklisted in that industry, for a few months really.
i look at it this way... an employer (in the USA) may fire anyone of us in a drop of a hat and without reason. so, i would never trust an employer, nor did i trust ibm, but i do see my weekly paycheck as that employer buying *my* trust.
maybe this is all a part of ethics...? on a political analogy... i personally despise bush; however, as you've probably read on my site, i publish stories in *support* of george bush. i even had fun editing them for the writers who submitted these stories... i wanted their ideas to come through in the best possible way. i didn't have to agree with them in order to help them be a success. but this is simply upholding the journalistic eithic i've sworn to my profession.
if an employer can not trust
me even though they offer pay, i don't see a good match. so, i am not convinced that hiding myself would really change that. do you agree?
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