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The focus of your career

Your LinkedIn profile tells someone a lot about you. For me, I don’t want to confuse people by trying to be too many things to too many people.

I have chosen (for now) to make my LinkedIn profile about my writing career only and not have any connection to my day job. This allows people to discover the writer Tim and not the sales version of Tim that you see during business hours.

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