I have a secret confession (well a few people know about it) but the general public does not.  I have been for the past two years managing two separate blogs.  One is here, and I had another one, which was my very first blog that I launched back in 2002.  That blog had gone through different phases, there was a point from 2002 - 2004 when I blogged literally almost every other day on average.

However, in the summer of 2004 I was thinking about looking for a new job and I foolishly blogged about it.  What I didn’t realize was that a small group of coworkers had found my blog, because one day I had accidently sent an email from my email address associated with the site.  Unbeknownst to me they had followed my blog since the beginning of the year and were quite “aware” of my thoughts around everything from work to life.

So let us just say, my manager was one of those people who was reading my blog and found out I was thinking of leaving my job at the time.  After being confronted by him I took down the site for a while and stopped blogging for about 9 months.  I decided to relaunch that site in 2005 and started this one.  This one was geared to everyone, but I was still careful in what I posted.  And the original one was limited to just coworkers who knew the address.  

The posts at each location were different and I was careful to make sure that they didn’t use the same words.  But since then, I have left that company for my new one and it would seem silly to have two blogs.  However, I have learned my lesson and you should NEVER post anything that you don’t want EVERYONE to read.  I know, I know….Duh.  But it was a valuable lesson I learned and thankfully it was not a career de-railer.  It was an awkward conversation with my Manager and Senior Manager at the time though.

Shortly I will be merging the two blogs together and importing all of the posts there to here, and it will truly be a tale of two blogs…