Sometimes a brain can come in quite handy.

[dejana]

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[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.

Personally, if I had to choose between fandom and my prospective career I honestly don't know what I'd do, and I suspect either choice would break me. That's why I keep my real name separate from my fandom name - so I don't have to.