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I'm assuming I won attention whore from the tone of your comment? I'll take it, though the whore part is a bit offensive - but I usually don't bitch about things that offend me.

I'm not knowledgeable enough w/ technology - hence why I'm looking to fill that void in my new company.

Glamor shots? Any pictures you see on my site are taken via phone using Instagram - hardly glamorous. I added a picture of myself because that's who the person who fills my position will be working with - ME - not because I'm self-involved.

I've been blogging for over 2 years & have put almost 250 posts out there - whether they are quality or not is for the reader to decide but I'm definitely done my best to put good content out into the world, for no other reason than because I love what I do & I love writing.

Sorry to offend but I guess attention whore is a step up from just plain "whore" so I'll take it :)

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As I said, it's not exactly the same thing, but I was responding more to the notion of the too-common extreme the poster above me seemed to elude to; not necessarily directly in response to your content. Other than perhaps this individual posting of yours, I don't think you're in the same ballpark as the more common and extreme examples I discussed. (I was going to post the URL of the most recent example of this game that we played, but it strikes me as bordering on mean-spirited.)

Also, I'm not sure why you would take particular note of the "whore" part of the phrase "attention whore". One who seeks attention through deliberately meaningless or provocative tactics. Meaningless seems inaccurate, but provocative is appropriate and clearly intentional. And, again, I'm talking more about the pattern in the industry of attention-whoring rather than your specific instance. You know, like someone who has a hundred thousand twitter followers and the first thing you find on google when searching on the name of these "journalists" are bikini photoshoots for men's magazines.

I see what you're saying, definitely not trying to join that camp, but point taken.

> I added a picture of myself because that's who the person who fills my position will be working with - ME - not because I'm self-involved.

But I'm still not getting the need for cleavage.

Like I said, wasn't meant to be a cleavage shot - just a picture - I didn't dissect it and think "hmm... how many people will be offended by this" maybe i am just jaded from growing up in Vegas but in my world that is so not a big deal.

Not offended at all. It's a very nice, good cleavage.

Speak for yourself. Will work for cleavage.

It really is a distracting amount of cleavage. Maybe you're just jaded from Vegas? :)

It could be :) You definitely don't leave Vegas unscathed

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