Creating a work email address
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I’m setting up a new MacBook computer for work. They give it to you, and you’re supposed to give it back at the end of your relationship.
Normal stuff, right? Well, I took the opportunity to use a nice, slow Sunday to tinker with thoughts on how to set up things (I love nerdy stuff).
The first thing I thought was: “Should I use my Apple ID, create a new one, or don’t use one at all (this one I’m not sure is possible)?”
I’m still thinking about it, and Sal helped with my train of thought. However, as I was setting up the computer, I found there are a lot of decisions I could take the time to think of, and it gave me anxiety, but like a good one, more like the excitement when you tinkered with the internet in the 2000s.
So this is what I’m thinking (and what this post is about):
I must use an email address. Whether that’s for password recoveries, 2-factor authentication (there are better ways, but that’s for another post), Apple ID (if I end up having to use one), or non-work-related apps ( I mean, yes, work-related but things that I use because I want, like extensions, password managers, time trackers, or whatever I need to get the job done and tracked).
That brings up the question: which address should I use?
Well…
- If someone messes up some config, I get locked out of the computer, and the only way to keep working until sorted out is to be able to log in on my personal laptop.
- The same goes if I use my @companydomain.com, which is Google Workspace and can definitely get messed up. This one wouldn’t be that bad, but I’ll have to wait for some dude on the other side of the world to go press the button.
These thoughts bring me to “okay, let’s use one of my domains and create a work@mydomain.com and finally settle on an all-work-related email”.
I think that’s cool and all, but I have 2 main domains. One is my full name, and the other one is like the one I use here, which is the internet identity I’ve been comfortably using for the past 6 years.
The mild but good internet anonymity train of thought is for another post, but I think I’ll settle up with a work at mydomain.com for all work-related stuff, which if you got here, you may be wondering why it’s so complicated. But I was a freelancer for all my life, and now I have a job, so “work” is kinda both.
Anyways, hope something I said made some sense. I’m not gonna try to edit it because I don’t post if I do that. I’ll keep it messy.
If you’d like to get in the train of thought, email me I’d sure appreciate your input.