That title is a poor rip off of “Just call me Angel of the morning”—the title fits the tune and it was in my head. Do you ever find that as soon as you start thinking about something it constantly comes up in conversation? Or when a friend/family gets a new car and you never paid attention to that type before but suddenly you become aware of them and you always notice them? Well, it happens to me. Lately, I have been thinking about blogging. I mentioned this before, but in June I am going to be speaking at the monthly member event about blogging. Now that I am thinking about it, blogging seems to be the topic on everyones mind. Today I want to talk about blogging and work.

It occured to me a couple days ago that in my About blurb at the bottom of the page that I list “press-releaser” but I wonder if, when you see that, you wonder what the heck it means? Even if you didn’t wonder, I am about to explain it. I work for CCNMatthews which is a newswire. But we aren’t like CBC or CTV or something. We are, as far as I can tell , something like an intermediary between the company and the news. We take the release from the company and send it to the people who need to know. What I do is I format documents to the most basic, ASCII version and send it out to news companies (like CBC, etc.) and investors and such. You can see, if you spend time on the home page, that we mostly put out new releases concerning publically traded companies.

Rhett, that sounds like really intriguing line of work, why don’t you blog about it more? There are a couple of reasons. The other day I was thinking about whether or not I would like to work in an environment that could be made into a reality TV show. I came to the conclusion that making our newsroom into a TV show might be a tough sell. There isn’t a lot of drama, although everyone here is really funny and super-duper cool. Frankly, I enjoy my job, however, it doesn’t provide me with anything I am particularly interested in blogging about. The second thing is that many people have been fired for blogging about their work. My boss is pretty deadly and I am not worried about being fired, but it’s also not a road I am interested in going down.

The last and most important reason I don’t blog about work is because I don’t want to end up like Martha Stewart:

What I am referring to is that I am given insider information on publicly traded companies and if I were to start leaking that here somehow I would go to jail. And I am not fit for jail. I’m too fragile. Someone hold me.

My boss knows about my website. I am not interested in attempting to stay anonymous, because if you really want to find me it won’t be hard. But if you are I found an interesting article here.