What with the recent increase in dooce-ing and an article in this weeks Micro Mart about “the perils of blogging” it got me thinking about how many of my readers write about work, and how many would be willing to give up their blog or lose their job, should the situation arise.

Personally, I’m quite a private person and I don’t blog extensively about my home life or my job anyway. Vague comments about changing employment or unspecific details on new tasks are about as far as I’ll push it. I made it clear I blogged when I had my interview for my new job too — even went so far as to use my personal website as an example of my coding and design (haha) skills.

So, assuming that you are employed, what would you do if your employer called you into the office and said “stop blogging or lose your job” (even if you don’t blog about work)? Does your employer know that you blog? What do you think about people who get fired for blogging — just desserts for speaking out of turn or a violation of their right to free speech? It’d be interesting to hear what you all think, even if you’re not currently employed.

Edit: Off-topic, I forgot to mention my new page on my collection of geek t-shirts.

I’ve actually been putting off blogging for the past week or so because everything I’ve want to write about has been job-orientated, and I didn’t want to go and get myself dooced before I’ve even been given the job.

Anyway, I think it’s safe to say that I had two interviews for new jobs all lined up and they both got arranged for the same day. A bit of wangling later and I managed to get to job 2 interview with an agreement that boss at job 1 would give me an interview providing he didn’t find a successful candidate in the first interviews. Boss did find a candidate so no second interview, but that’s cool. I’m fine with that.

Now that I’ve confused you with this “job 1″ and “job 2″ business, I’ll just sum up everything by saying that I actually ENJOYED my interview yesterday. The people were nice and the individual task I had to do (to demonstrate my skills, I will assume) had me giggling because it involved reviewing their current intranet which I do as a hobby and therefore completely rock at.

Although my mind went blank two/three times during the formal interview thus making me stumble over TCP/IP, DHCP etc.. I think I did well and have my fingers crossed for this job. You guys can start crossing your fingers too. The only thing not in my favour is the lack of years of experience, but I think I’m okay. We’ll see.. I’ll keep you updated.

I’m tired today, it’s been a long week.