No offense, Jane, but such considerations hold little water in many ares of the country where jobs are at a premium. One accepts that one must make compromises and work with people who one would not, for example, live with. The secret to survival, of course, is to keep your ideas to yourself. (Or, as I found out at one good paying job a dozen years back, keep you lunch to yourself! At that time seaweed filled miso soup was enough to cause problems among the middle Americans.))Is it possible that if potential employers would hold your personal beliefs and interests/hobbies against you that perhaps you wouldn't want to work for such people? And if they would use such measures as checking you out in a search engine and then judging you on such information instead of your merits as a scientist, then perhaps they would not be a good employer?Just my two cents, Jane S.
Me thinks, Jane, per chance you have no idea what the rest of us go through.
For you non-US folks, you probably have no idea of the level of total conformity that's expected here in the states.
-Allan
