Anonymous?

There are a lot of reasons for making this anonymous.  I really struggled with the idea at first.

But as I watched one of my employees write a decidedly nonymous blog about her burnout and the drudgery of working for me, I realized just how foolish it would be to attach my name to things.  After all, how can the boss talk about his burnout.

Secondly I am growing bitter and jaded in a profession that demands idealism, or at least the appearance of idealism.  Almost every day I have occasion to tell someone what I do and the universal response is “wow that must be rewarding.”  Now to complain of any kind of job in todays economy seems like extreme ungratefulness, but it no longer feels rewarding.  Most days I do it because it is all I know how to do.

Finally, although I am hardly known outside of a very small circle, I depend on public support for much of what I do.  These are not times that lend themselves to sharing politics without losing almost precisely half of your support.  If people won’t patronize restaurants when their politics differ from that of the owner, they certainly won’t support a nonprofit whose ideology just might be suspect to begin with.

It is not like I have the illusion that I can really hide.  If anyone wants to figure out who writes this blog it shouldn’t be too hard.  But in past attempts at blogging my readership has consisted of my parents and on very rare occasions, my wife, so I will take my chances.  My concealment will be indifference.