- Sep 10th, 2007 by Rebecca Matheson in Life, Wedding
I have a dilemma. Perhaps I am a little forward thinking, but clearly not enough.
My current email address is rebecca.mysurname@gmail.com
when I happen to acquire a new last name in January (Ignore the hogwash in the Age that says women should keep their old last names… I’m quite glad to get rid of it’s horrible spelling) I will theoretically need/want a new email address that reflects it.
BUT
being a slightly more common surname,
rebecca.newsurname@gmail.com and rebeccanewsurname@gmail.com are TAKEN.
This is somewhat devastating. I’d like something professional, none of this imahotchick@hotmail business.
I could go for rebecca@allsaid… or rebecca@geoffandbec… but I don’t know how ‘valid’ professionally they are?
What do you think? Do you have any suggestions?
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but fair point.
but oh well...
9 Responses to “Email and Professionalism”
rebecca@allsaid etc still sounds professional, in my opinion.
What about putting your middle initial in there (rebeccaxnewsurname@gmail.com) or just having your initials and surname? (rx.newsurname@gmail.com)What about reversing the order? (newsurname.rebecca@gmail.com)
yes I have come along this problem. It was solved with Rodneys suggestion. You may have noticed with my email address.
Poor Bec.
Make Geoff take your name.
Alternatively, brand yourself. If you want to go professional, then perhaps having an email address @yourblogdomain isn’t necessarily the direction you want to go in. Register another domain for yourself. You could even put up a site with some folio pieces.
There’s also nothing stopping you from having one email address for the professional stuff and one for more cuddly things. I do that. In fact, I’ve almost got one for each circle of people I move amongst. Right down to the hotmail account that I don’t care about that I give to Junior Camp kids so that they can spam me with chain mail.
I don’t write mean things about you! Leave me alone!
iamahotchick@hotmail.com is a good email address. Grrrr.
hahahahahahah
bimbo indeed
Bec,
What about just becnewsurname@ gmail or is that one already taken too?
mum
erm. yes It is taken now ‘by me’ however, it is not very professional.
I don’t think having ‘Bec’ rather than ‘Rebecca’ makes you any less professional. If potential employers/other professional people see a resumee, or whatever of you, and see that your name is Rebecca but you have an email address of Bec, I’m sure they won’t think twice of it – most people can understand that Bec is a normal shortened version of Rebecca.
So, I’d go with that, or the middle initial suggestion. I used that one as well.
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