Lately, I’ve had a noticeable increase in my readership. Not my clicks but actual readers. I’m flattered so many folks like my rantings. I’ve tried to keep the blog “honest” so to speak in that I’ve always wanted it to become an extension of me and a reflection of my growth as a person.
With the exception of kristaki, I’m often very leary of my co-workers learning about my blog. I’m not ashamed, I just don’t want any unneccesary conflicts. I’m very professional at work, even when I’m goofing off and being a cornball. I offered my link to a female co-worker this week. Someone I’d originally made assumptions about based on her appearance. Not bad mind you, just incorrect. She is a very nice woman whom I’ve grown to respect a lot. I’m pretty sure our lives are on different paths but that’s not really a surprise. And whether she actually decides to read or not isn’t important. Having gotten to know her a bit, I feel like she is worth the risk. She is always very kind, overly considerate, and easy to work with. She has improved in her job skills tremendously since starting just 2 short years ago.
I’m sure my blog will be a bit racy for her and may even be a little bit TMI at times. However, I am confident that won’t matter and feel like she would benefit from my madness.
Moby….
I stumbled across you through Rob’s blog several months back. Your the perfect match up link to his site. You have a very genuine quality about you like Rob has. And a funny, maybe warped at times, sense of humor for a good laugh.
Keep being yourself.
Congrats on the readership. You’ve got good content! 🙂
Eventually, I make it a point to come out to all coworkers; and the vast majority have been supportive. Some coworkers are to the point where they know me well enough to be a playful in talking about gay/str8 differences. It’s a great environment.
Anyway, an easy way that I can come out to new coworkers is to simply give them the link to my blog; it’s me. It’s out there.
The risks of doing this are that I do have to tame things down a bit and pretty much never talk about work. (Especially not criticisms or rumors that they could spread, like my recent job change.) I also don’t cuss too much.
But coworkers surprise me with what they retain from my blog, and I guess no work and little cussing is not a bad policy, anyway! 🙂
Keep up the good work!