You might say that some people might not hire me when they read that I expressed some controversial view years ago in an online forum. I would say that I don’t want to increase the power of those organisations by working for them anyway.
How far from the normal are you? You may quickly find your feelings change drastically as your positions become more opposed. I don’t want to work for organizations that would not hire me due to controversial views, but depending on the view and on my employment prospects, my choices may be heavily constrained. I’d rather know which organizations I can choose to avoid, rather than be forced out of organizations. ((There are also time-costs involved with doing it this way: it a company says it hates X in the news, and I like X, I can not send them a resume. But I send them a resume and then discover than they don’t want to hire me due to my positions on X during an interview, it’s a lot of lost energy.))
Conversely, writing under my own name would incentive avoiding topics that are or are likely to become controversial enough.
How far from the normal are you? You may quickly find your feelings change drastically as your positions become more opposed. I don’t want to work for organizations that would not hire me due to controversial views, but depending on the view and on my employment prospects, my choices may be heavily constrained. I’d rather know which organizations I can choose to avoid, rather than be forced out of organizations. ((There are also time-costs involved with doing it this way: it a company says it hates X in the news, and I like X, I can not send them a resume. But I send them a resume and then discover than they don’t want to hire me due to my positions on X during an interview, it’s a lot of lost energy.))
Conversely, writing under my own name would incentive avoiding topics that are or are likely to become controversial enough.