Serious question time!
So, next year - God willing - I'll be an assistant professor at some fine institution of higher learning. And I sort of right away wonder: what does that mean about me and SG? I'm looking for advice, basically, from you other professional types out there.
The thing is, I'm not worried about my colleagues especially. Like they care that I have a journal on an alt-porn site? Whatevs. I would suppose that most of them don't even know what this place is. Fine enough. So this is not an "endangering your tenure" kind of concern. We're talking about liberal (or libertarian) academics after all. (Unless I end up at some creepy Christian school .. and that's a whole OTHER bag of worms.)
My bigger concern is with *students.* If you look at my journals and my profile, and then do a few quick Google searches, it's not too hard to figure out who I am, where I went to school, and who the various cast of characters I occasionally refer to are. So I am hardly anonymous.
If I'm at a big school, there are almost certain to be students who are on the site. There's less of a chance at that at a small school - but I'd be much more likely to *run into* students who are members then. So each has its problems. Of course, the site itself is a pretty big place itself anymore.
It's not like I'm advertising that I'm a member, but it's not *implausible* that I would join the regional group of wherever I ended up - and so on and so forth. This is all a long way of saying: what's a professional person to do? It's not that my journal is *that* salacious, but it's reasonably personal - and with things that my students have no business knowing. Do I leave the site, go anonymous? The latter seems silly to me: I think it's either go or stay. I don't use the site as much as I did, so leaving wouldn't be that big of a deal - though I'd miss you all of course. So I dunno .... thoughts out there?
So, next year - God willing - I'll be an assistant professor at some fine institution of higher learning. And I sort of right away wonder: what does that mean about me and SG? I'm looking for advice, basically, from you other professional types out there.
The thing is, I'm not worried about my colleagues especially. Like they care that I have a journal on an alt-porn site? Whatevs. I would suppose that most of them don't even know what this place is. Fine enough. So this is not an "endangering your tenure" kind of concern. We're talking about liberal (or libertarian) academics after all. (Unless I end up at some creepy Christian school .. and that's a whole OTHER bag of worms.)
My bigger concern is with *students.* If you look at my journals and my profile, and then do a few quick Google searches, it's not too hard to figure out who I am, where I went to school, and who the various cast of characters I occasionally refer to are. So I am hardly anonymous.
If I'm at a big school, there are almost certain to be students who are on the site. There's less of a chance at that at a small school - but I'd be much more likely to *run into* students who are members then. So each has its problems. Of course, the site itself is a pretty big place itself anymore.
It's not like I'm advertising that I'm a member, but it's not *implausible* that I would join the regional group of wherever I ended up - and so on and so forth. This is all a long way of saying: what's a professional person to do? It's not that my journal is *that* salacious, but it's reasonably personal - and with things that my students have no business knowing. Do I leave the site, go anonymous? The latter seems silly to me: I think it's either go or stay. I don't use the site as much as I did, so leaving wouldn't be that big of a deal - though I'd miss you all of course. So I dunno .... thoughts out there?
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