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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that online doesn't mean forever.
So if there is content online that you will need in the future, save it somewhere you are sure you will be able to access it.
So I know a lot of young people are warned that online is forever.
That mildly obscene comment you left on a social media post as a teenager could be found by a potential employer when you are job hunting at 30.
It is a sobering realization.
But unfortunately, if embarrassing things last, sometimes useful stuff disappears for various reasons.
It turns out that online isn't forever for everything.
For instance, I keep reading stories of people who got fired or laid off from their jobs and can't access stuff on their work server or in their work email that is actually personal.
Obviously, it is awful to lose a job.
It adds to the awfulness if you can't access your eyeglasses prescription or your finance spreadsheet or your Christmas card list or the presentation you were giving at that industry conference or that wonderful recommendation letter your mentor wrote for you but you were just keeping as an attachment
to the work email where he sent it.
Yikes. One can debate the merits of homing from work as the saying goes but a lot of information workers do personal things on their lunch breaks with the result that the info is on the work computer.
Being fired or laid off may not be avoidable, but losing access to your personal files is.
Even if you don't have a personal computer and use your work computer for everything, it is wise to save your files in a place you will always have access to them.
One simple option is Google Drive with the drive attached to your personal email, of course, and not your work email.
It's pretty easy to get a personal email account these days.
If you don't have one, you can do this.
That brings me to a related point.
Some people use their work email address for everything.
There are plenty of reasons not to do that, but I realize a lot of people do.
If you are one of them, be sure there aren't any personal messages you may need access to in the future that you can only access through your work email account.
One option is just to CC your personal email on messages you send and forward messages you receive to your personal account.
That way, even if you primarily send and receive messages from your work account, you will have them available in your personal email account too.
Now to be clear, I'm talking about making sure you have personal access to personal content.
I am not suggesting that you save work documents to your personal server or forward work emails to your personal account, especially if there are any security issues involved.
But that note from your mentor needs to be available if you are suddenly escorted out of your office, and you want to use that note to help you land another job.
Not only do you want to be prepared if you lose access to work servers or email to ensure you can still get access to your personal things, it's also wise to be prepared if important web content gets taken down.
For instance, if you apply for a job, Save the job description.
You don't want to find yourself preparing for an interview but unable to review the job description because it's no longer posted.
If you cite an internet source in a work document or even on your personal blog, capture it somehow, even as a screenshot or something like that.
So if you or someone else needs to refer to the source in the future, you can.
It is convenient to keep links on file for pages you'll want to return to.
But don't count on a web link working for you forever.
It might go behind a paywall.
Or the site will get acquired and the new owners will take it in a different direction.
In other words, it is wise not to count on online being forever.
If you'll need something, save it somewhere you'll be able to get to it.
Then that will be one last thing to worry about.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
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