So, you've been on the Internet for a bit longer than me, and it sounds like you've used your full name as your net-facing identity for a good part of it. One thing heavily instilled in me as a child is that I should watch what I post online, since employers may find it (and do still remember how awkward it was to get called into a supervisor's office and shown a series of my inadvisable Facebook posts that said supervisor did not have direct access to). But right now I'm starting to get tired of juggling pseudonyms and taking care to remember who knows which of my identities link to each other. And seeing you post about furry dicks and whatnot under your legal name seems like it's rather liberating in comparison. Which brings me to my actual question: have you experienced (or suspected you've experienced) any employment-related downsides to such openness online, particularly in IT?
Honestly, if I wasn't a published author, I probably wouldn't be posting under my real name, either. I wouldn't recommend it in general; I'm in a position of considerable privilege employment-wise because I happen to be operationally indispensable to some fairly critically placed systems, so I can basically do whatever I want online short of openly committing felonies without any consequences. Most people don't have that luxury!
This you?
I'm neither furry nor Nebraskan enough to be that guy.
