Praise Blog!
Who knew that my blog would be an asset and not a liability? I did. That’s why I keep it and write under my own name.
Today I went in for a job interview (a real one!*) and the interviewers both said they had read my blog and and enjoyed it! I don’t know if that’s enough to hire me (that would be totally awesome if it were), but it did help boost my writing self-esteem. Lately I’ve felt like I’ve been in a bit of a writing slump. I’ve been turning in a steady stream of articles for Collider but I felt they were lacking the pop I was once providing. I wasn’t playing with words like I used to or including fun asides. It was rote analysis of movie news with not enough of the snark that I was hired to write in the first place. And I love writing snark. How many people get paid to be snarky? Thankfully, not many. But I’m one of them!
Anyway, if anyone ever tells you that keeping a blog may be detrimental to your job prospects, feel free to use this instance as anecdotal evidence. You will surely win the argument.
*At some point I’ll have to chronicle how CareerBuilder led me into a den of thieves.
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