[NetBehaviour] Some thoughts about Linkedin

[dave miller]

I've been updating LinkedIn over the past few days, looking for work.
With LinkedIn I struggle with balancing commercial jobs and my art career.
I seem to be using my art skills to try to get jobs that may require
creativity, but it's an uneasy and unhappy mix. It also feels dishonest, as
if I'm somehow in denial about how important my art is to me.

Maybe the problem is me - I've done both commercial work and art and have
always found that the two don't go happily or neatly together, though in
theory they should as I am trying to find work in the creative industries.
Though the political art definitely doesn't fit on a regular CV, so I hide
this.

I just don't think LinkedIn serves the needs of artists. Or academic
research/ funding.

But i might be wrong and just not doing things right?

Are artists using LinkedIn? Or are they using something else? Should there
be a LinkedIn for artists? Is there a gap in the market? Artists and
researchers looking for opportunities/ funding?

Trouble with this way of thinking is I don't like the split life  - work
and art - and having to keep them separate. Is it unavoidable?

Would be good to know how others present themselves as artists/ workers /
researchers

thanks dave
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