Sometimes a brain can come in quite handy.

[dejana]

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Comments

[nessabutterfly]

It's a good thing that I don't care who knows who i am. I use the same username everywhere for fandom, personal, and business. I just try to make sure I don't post anything I'd be ashamed of.

[dejana]

*nods* I don't really have anything to be ashamed of, either. There are plenty of people out there, though, who might be in trouble if their bosses found out they were writing slash porn about underage boys or whatever.

[korilian]

I for one keep my username private as the plague! I don´t want my mom or prospective employers stumbling over my porn.

[laura_holt_pi]

I've never seen the point of trying to hide who I am. I write some explicit sex, but it goes against my nature to pretend that I don't. I can't help thinking that if people have to hide who they are to keep their job/friends they either need to change what they're doing or change their job/friends.

[aliceclimbing]

Your thinking is wrong. Unless you seriously advocate that I give up my job teaching in desperately underserved areas of the US rural South, or that I give up who I am to keep a job where I have a chance to do real good.

I could use my MA to get a job at which I'd be adequately paid and treated with respect in a society that fails to value those who educate its next generation, and which would allow me to link my fan identity with my RL name. I see absolutely no reason why I should do so to indulge your utter lack of imagination.

[kazaera]

The thing is that, very well, for you and others fandom may be more important than various real life issues; if your job can't handle it, change the job! Which is fine and valid, buut some people don't have that option. Some people frankly /need/ their jobs because they can't change them very easily, for any number of reasons. (Not everyone in LJ fandom is relatively well-off and has the CV necessary to be able to pick and choose jobs like that.) For them, anything that could get them fired is BAD. And for some other people, real life is, in fact, that important. I'm currently trying to reach my dream job; it's something that I think would make me immensely happy, allow me to contribute to humanity, yadda yadda fulfilled life and happy Kaz. It's also immensely competitive, the jobs tend to be of short duration, badly paid and in general a really tough career to go for