On Apr 1, 4:58 pm, "dame_zum...@yahoo.com" <dame_zum...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> On Mar 31, 10:15 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 31, 4:31 pm, "dame_zum...@yahoo.com" <dame_zum...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > On Mar 31, 6:11 am, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msd.bigREMOVETHISlobe.ne.jp>
> > > wrote:
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> > > > ... I am always wary about that which is online
> > > > coming back to bite me in the rear.
>
> > > Good thinking.
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> > > I went for a job interview a couplathree years ago, where one of the
> > > interviewers produced a stack of paper and said "I see you've been
> > > posting online for some time."
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> > > Yes, he'd Googled my name and yes, there's a lot of postings out there
> > > in my real name. So he knew my medical history, background, a lot
> > > about my interests and obsessions, and maybe even found the flames I
> > > got involved in, amidst all the more innocuous noise blether.
>
> > > I didn't get the job.
>
> > Are you self employed these days? Just curious.
>
> I've been self-employed for something like 20 years, but I was looking
> for a part-time job too at that point, because I was getting a little
> stir-crazy being at home all the time.
>
> Mind you, I'm still not sure whether I'd've been able to get back into
> the routine of an office....

I stopped working as a freelance translator mainly because I hated
working by myself at home. Plus, I have wide ranging interests and (it
is alleged) a natural tendency to proscrastinate.