It doesn't matter too much, just make sure it's professional and not something like rabbitfucker@gmail. You could also just make an address specifically for interviews or whatever.
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just make sure it's professional and not something like rabbitfucker@gmail.
Except for people in the very exclusive boutique rabbit breeding business.
Well sure, that's how I know that one is unavailable.
rabbitfucker@gmail is so dope
You should use Gmail. Reason being some lazily designed IT systems block emails that come from easy-to-register domains, and Proton among others frequently end up on the list.
If you're an email purist and want to fight the corporations that do the lazy blocking by letting them miss your emails, go ahead, but it might not be the most effective protest.
I think you're over thinking this. The Proton.me account will be fine. Neither particularly beneficial or detrimental.
More important is the actual address. Ideally that should be your actual name, rather than something rediculous like iloveboobies1999@...
If you have a paid Proton account you can set up multiple email addresses under the same account if you want to compartmentalise your work and personal life.
Should I use my gmail account for career related purposes or should a proton.me address be fine?
I've worked at a couple of places where it was a kind of "badge of pride" to be more in control of your email e.g. tech companies dealing with infrastructure/hosting. And then of course there is, what I imagine, the vast majority of places which could not care less.
Why do you type with
random parts
split by carraige
return.
It makes me read it like Captain Kirk.
Haha yeah I've written a fediverse system which connects email and activitypub. Writing these from my regular email client (more info if interested: https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/apas.html) Looks like what I'm gonna do is delete all carriage returns out just before it's sent out to the fediverse. Thanks for spotting that!
Out of curiosity from which app/client/frontend did you notice this?
On lemmy for iPhone you’re just skipping spaces “randomly” (where your carriage returns are, I’m guessing). It looks like:
Looks like whatI’m gonna do is delete all carriage returns out just before it’s sentout to..
Sorry not sure which app that is. Is this the default web interface e.g. at https://programming.dev ?
Or Memmy or one of the apps from the app store?
Memmy, sorry.
what client are you using? i dont think most render single linebreaks
Ah good spot. Sync for Lemmy renders the new lines.
Still don't know why they are there in the first place :)
perhaps habit? i know many people write markdown documents that way, it can help with editors which dont wrap text, and may be better for using grep and related line-based tools.
Ah so if you really want to know, it's because one of the mail clients I use quoted-printable encodes the body when sending a message with lines >80-ish characters.
I haven't implemented a decoder on the other end. My current workaround is to pipe everything through fmt before it goes out.
i know many people write markdown documents that way,
Yes I also actually do this too; I'm a fan of semantic line feeds.
In case you couldn't tell, the whole system is a WIP ;)
:-)
No one really cares as long as it's not something extremely weird.
I personally opted for registering a domain name which I use to create an aliased email (along with a personal website), but this is mostly to set myself up for a possible pivot to doing consulting later on in my career. It's pretty cheap, all things considered - I pay $12 a year for it.
Is the proton.me a professional sounding name like your real name? or is it xxbussydestroyerxx or something?
Create a new email address for each round of job hunting if you’re going to apply to many places. I can guarantee this email will get spam for years to come. Job boards and recruiting firms sell and reuse email lists. You don’t want to still get spam offering you junior roles ten years into your career.
A Proton address is fine. Like others have said, keep it professional.
Register some professional looking domain and just set up mail on that.
Personally, I would definitely rather employ someone who's made a conscious choice about their e-mail provider...
How is choosing MS not making a conscious decision about privacy? Companies choose MS specifically because it has very strong controls to protect information. Same with workspaces to a lesser degree.
MS? Microsoft? The question mentioned GMail, which would be Google.
MS365 is pretty much the business default. But same question then. How does workspaces spy on your privacy?
I have no idea. I was talking about GMail, not about Workspaces. OP wants to use their personal e-mail to apply to a job.
I mean, assuming Workspaces is a service by either Google or Microsoft (they both have an offering called similar to that), if you're outside the US, they are required by US law (PATRIOT act & CLOUD act) to provide customer data to the US intelligence services.
See, for example, the recent news that the European Commission may not use MS365: https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/european-commissions-use-microsoft-365-infringes-data-protection-law-eu-institutions-and-bodies_en
That's the baseline, how all US-based services leak data, but obviously, how much data they leak, depends on how much data is stored unencrypted on their servers. And that's where GMail is significantly worse than most services.
I misread
I expect to learn that Google has been selling a "sentiment analysis" (measure of desperation) to potential employers, based on the contents on my Gmail inbox during my job search.
So I no longer allow anything financial to go through Gmail.
Source: just my suspicion, since it would compliment health and health insurance privacy horrors (MIB) and financial privacy invasions (credit scores, Equifax).