Comments on: Web Persona and Your Career https://thomaslarock.com/2008/12/web-persona-and-your-career/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: facility9 » Links for the week of 2008-12-26 https://thomaslarock.com/2008/12/web-persona-and-your-career/#comment-254 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:34:20 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=722#comment-254 […] Web Persona and Your Career – Tom LaRock makes some great points about how to present yourself on the web. Ultimately it comes down to being yourself. As I’ve started writing more for this blog I’m finding more of my voice as an author and I’m getting comfortable enough to start trying different things. Time will tell, but the important part is to just be yourself. […]

]]> By: Weekly Link Roundup 2008-12-21 | codegumbo https://thomaslarock.com/2008/12/web-persona-and-your-career/#comment-253 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:44:28 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=722#comment-253 […] SQL Batman’s post on Web Persona: As a budding blogger, I wish that I wrote as eloquently as the Batman. I also wish I had been creative enough to choose a moniker like his, but if I keep building the brand, I think codegumbo will eventually have some of the same power. […]

]]> By: Brent Ozar https://thomaslarock.com/2008/12/web-persona-and-your-career/#comment-252 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:34:25 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=722#comment-252 Ditto. And I do use adult language in meatspace and online, because, uh, well, I’m an adult.

If one of my DBAs accidentally drops a database, I expect him to drop an F-bomb shortly thereafter. A good employer will fire him for neither one, whereas a bad employer would fire him for EITHER one.

I’m not interested in improving my odds to work for a bad employer.

]]> By: SDC https://thomaslarock.com/2008/12/web-persona-and-your-career/#comment-251 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:21:18 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=722#comment-251 Personally, I dig the ‘SQLBatman’ alias. It makes you stick out in a good way, as somebody who knows stuff but doesn’t take himself too seriously.

]]> By: Damon Clark https://thomaslarock.com/2008/12/web-persona-and-your-career/#comment-250 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:26:11 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=722#comment-250 Right on. I am done with the stuffy employers. I don’t want to work places that think a DBA has to be a crusty curmudgeon anyhow!

]]> By: Stephen Dyckes https://thomaslarock.com/2008/12/web-persona-and-your-career/#comment-249 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:17:23 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=722#comment-249 I would have to agree with your analysis. You need to be yourself! While there are good guidelines out there, they are just that, recommendations. Be yourself and enjoy life.

]]> By: Todd Robinson https://thomaslarock.com/2008/12/web-persona-and-your-career/#comment-248 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:08:15 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=722#comment-248 I agree with you completely. Even though I do have my own personal site with my own name on it, I don’t use it really because I’m afraid of posting something which might be the least bit offensive. Half of what makes our jobs interesting is the crazy things our users or vendors want us to do, and if there is no way to vent that, our heads would surely explode. I want to be able to share these experiences with my fellow DBA’s, but in a way that is not using real names to protect the ignorant.

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