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My Sassy-Pants Up-Yours Piece on LinkedIn

I resisted the urge to tag a couple of people

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I have never been a big fan of LinkedIn, but like everyone else I have a profile and I used to think it might someday help get me a good job.

Mostly, it’s helped other people market their MBA programs to me, which is ridiculous. If I were going to go back to school, that’s the last degree I’d ever choose. Anthropology, literature or sociology — you know, something I could use to make even less money than now — would be more likely choices.

To spend time on that platform is to read one post after another about someone posting how humbled they are to announce their new role, complete with a title that makes no sense whatsoever. It’s a stew of toxic positivity, so I hadn’t visited my profile for ages.

Thanks to a resume specialist I used back when I still thought I might someday score a real job, I had been advertising myself as a digital media specialist skilled in blah blah blah. But I just switched everything over to the truth.

I’m a writer

That’s it. I write. So this is what I posted:

Women of a certain age, this one is for you.

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