Today I deleated My Linked-In Account!!!

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I'm a lair. I really just made it completely private so that I can delete it later, when I'm stronger.

 We have found that one of the hardest things to do is to give up on working!  Sure we stopped going to our 9-5's sometime ago, but we have discovered that we are still very much immersed in the work-a-day culture!  
We are surrounded by books  and trade magazines, we have a whole wall devoted to certificates and (now meaningless) honorariums.  We have Linkedin accounts, and online resumes. For what?

It is not my intention to ever work for anyone else. Never at all. I have no desire to write your grant, do your research, prove my point or justify my budget! 
To that end I also deleted all the Performance Profiles I had collected over the years. Yes, I did! And as I did, I was struck by the amount of  soft-soap and apple polishing in those documents. I would never talk to someone like that now, nor would I allow someone to talk to me like that. Don't get me wrong, my reviews were good, You could even say great, but from this perspective they appeared dehumanizing and scripted.

Sooooo, out go performance reviews, the reference books, the 5, 10, 15 year certificates and honorariums as as for that Linkedin account that I was always going to go in and update? Whooosh! Gone. Bye. Don't call me and don't worry I won't be calling you. I'm on my way to Panama! 

(One trick I've learned about getting rid of useless stuff -- it makes it easier if you take a picture of it before it hits the trash. That way you still have the useless image, but it just takes up a lot less space!)
 
 
 




 



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