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tabbycat31

(6,336 posts)
9. I have gmail
Thu Oct 17, 2013, 01:00 PM
Oct 2013

For my personal and work (company created a gmail account for me). Previous jobs I've had paid gmail accounts. (Most colleges now have their @school.edu email through gmail).

I would say that 95% of people in my field have a gmail account. In fact everyone that I interviewed had a gmail on their resume.

The reason for this is that we use a lot of shared documents, and it's easier to have a spreadsheet that multiple people can edit once on Google Docs (now Drive) than to send an excel document back and forth to multiple people (you can see things being edited in real time). I've shared documents on my paid (now expired) gmail accounts to my personal one in order to back them up.

I've had some issues with it, but I've accepted the realities that come with working in my given field.

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I use Turbineguy Oct 2013 #1
Those are the two we use as well. MuseRider Oct 2013 #5
Gmail benld74 Oct 2013 #2
Gmail is NOT private dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #7
My mom asked me about that and there is a way to opt out davidpdx Oct 2013 #12
Which one is? quakerboy Oct 2013 #16
Opera has an online email service dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #17
Juno.com Suich Oct 2013 #3
a big 2nd for Juno... handmade34 Oct 2013 #4
Juno isn't signing up new users who aren't using their paid service davidpdx Oct 2013 #11
One downside that ive found quakerboy Oct 2013 #15
I use Mozilla's Thunderbird LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #6
START Page, the guraenteed private search engine, dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #8
I have gmail tabbycat31 Oct 2013 #9
The Google Drive is one of the nice features of Gmail davidpdx Oct 2013 #14
Yahoo was perfectly serviceable until about 2 weeks ago. Bucky Oct 2013 #10
I'm a little late to the party davidpdx Oct 2013 #13
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