Hey there!
Soon starting my second year studying computer science, really liked the first year, especially the programming classes (Python, Java), learning some C++ and Rust the coming year :)
We got recommended to start working on our Linkedin profiles during year 2, and I'm thinking it's time to get rid of the "ponygirl2005"-sounding address I've had since I was a kid and get one I can use in a professional setting.
I like gmail and plan to use it, but my name is already taken. I've looked around here on Reddit and picked up some tips, but I'm having a hard time deciding on what would be the best both for private use and not look out of place in a professional setting.
The tips I've seen on Reddit are:
Add your middle name initial or birth year to the address. "jane.j.doe" is already taken, same with "jane.doe.05" and "jane.doe.2005". "jane.j.doe.2005" is free, but is that a bit "much"? I get the feeling it might not look professional?
An alternative to the suggestion above would be the complete middle name, but my middle name is a bit long, and my first name isn't really a short "jane", would be more along the lines jeanette.josephine.doe, maybe a bit long?
Adding something with the line of work to the address. How about adding "dev", or something similar? "jeanette.doe.dev"? Does this sound good or silly? Also thinking - what if I get into business intelligence/data warehousing, would a "dev" be out of place then?
Using protonmail instead of gmail. This came up several times in other discussions. There the first few suggestions are available.
tl;dr - best professional email for a future dev in your opinion?
jeanette.j.doe.2005@gmail - "messy"?
jeanette.josephine.doe@gmail - long?
jeanette.doe.dev@gmail - is "dev" good? What if I end up in BI/data warehousing, still good?
jeanette.j.doe@protonmail - is Protonmail a good alternative with a professional vibe?
jeanette.doe.05@protonmail -same as above
Any other suggestions? Thanks :)
What are the essential email addresses for a business to have?
A reminder that if you are using your own email server (like with shared hosting), you don't need multiple email accounts... you can easily set up email forwarders that go to the same address. It makes look like you have multiple accounts, but you only ever have to check a single email account.
Later, when your business grows, you can turn the forwarders into actual email accounts of their own.
Here's how I set up mine:
Primary email account
Forwarders that all automatically redirect to my primary email account:
[email protected] developer emails [email protected] social media accounts [email protected] service providers, vendors, government [email protected] sales inquiriesThat way, when you eventually hire someone to handle each area, you can hand the email address over to them to manage, and you don't have to worry about what happens when all your tax emails have been going to [email protected] and Margie quits, so you have to go tell everyone to send them to [email protected] instead. It's best to keep these kinds of general email accounts impersonal for that reason.
Advanced usage:
You could just as easily create a [email protected] and [email protected] that both forward to [email protected], and then have accounting@ forward to your main email account. That way, you can split off accounting@ when you hire your bookkeeper, and then further split off ar@ and ap@ when you eventually create those departments.
Edit:
I have clients that like to also have their own personal email accounts, so we set them up like this:
[email protected] -- Pam's primary email account
[email protected] -- Eric's primary email account
[email protected] -- forwarder that goes to BOTH Pam and Eric
This way, they can use their own email account for client-to-client interaction, but for general emails, they can hand out the generic email. That way, their own email accounts don't become a giant sinkhole for spam, since they hand it out sparingly.
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