I didn’t even know how to spell it until last
week. For some reason, I had a blog post
go viral a few days ago ( https://eightygo.blogspot.com/2018/07/decluttering-dairy-day-one.html ) and all of a sudden I was
asked to sign up for LinkedIn because people were searching for me. Out of curiosity, I signed up, and found that
supposedly, some lawyers and CEOs and other important sounding people wanted
to know more about me.
My age and other
personal information is all over the internet if you key in my name, so I don’t
know why they thought Linkedin was a good place to find out about me. If you see the title of my blog (EightyGo)
it obvious that I’m not looking for a job.
And yet, Linkedin has alerted me to numerous jobs that I might qualify
for. The
majority of the job titles are “Recruiting Coordinator,” which
apparently pays less than I was making when I retired 18 years ago as the
Director of Nutrition Services at an acute care hospital. Realistically speaking, I don’t think a lady
of eighty from Indiana is going to be hired for one of these jobs in New York
or LA. But it’s kind of intriguing to
think that seems to be where Linkedin thinks my aptitude lies. I don’t know what I would have studied in
college if that’s what I aspired to be.
Also, they have suggested I “link up” with other people I
barely know. Why would I bother these
people by asking someone like me to be their Linkedin buddy?
Now, I’ve seen that there are several u-tube
videos about how to use Linkedin, but I find those how--to videos tedious to
watch, especially if they’re done by someone with a foreign accent that you
can’t understand. I guess it shows that
even though I thought I was pretty savvy about social media, it’s obvious that
I’m not. Almost everything I do online
(including this blog) is pretty much trial and error. As my husband says, “you just start punching
buttons until something happens.”
Honestly, I don’t even know how to design a template for my blog,
which is why you see only my picture and the title, EightyGo. I’d like to change it, but I’m afraid I’ll
mess things up, so I’m leaving it for now.
Right now, I'm wondering who else is searching for me on Linkedin. 😁
My age and other
personal information is all over the internet if you key in my name, so I don’t
know why they thought Linkedin was a good place to find out about me. If you see the title of my blog (EightyGo)
it obvious that I’m not looking for a job.
And yet, Linkedin has alerted me to numerous jobs that I might qualify
for. The
majority of the job titles are “Recruiting Coordinator,” which
apparently pays less than I was making when I retired 18 years ago as the
Director of Nutrition Services at an acute care hospital. Realistically speaking, I don’t think a lady
of eighty from Indiana is going to be hired for one of these jobs in New York
or LA. But it’s kind of intriguing to
think that seems to be where Linkedin thinks my aptitude lies. I don’t know what I would have studied in
college if that’s what I aspired to be. 
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