Okay my real name is Jack but I’m known in some circles as Velvet and at work my name is Vulture… I think more people should have more names we contain multitudes etc
my full legal name is Jack, unlike the johns and james who go by jack. i love that everyone just calls me jack, no nicknames or alternate spellings or anything.
I have come to really appreciate my name. it’s not terribly hard but not super familiar in the u.s.
I work in food service. I was sort of recently given a short nickname that stuck. I don’t mind it, first nickname that ppl actually use. Now I offer it to customers if they ask my name. Idk why it feels vulnerable to give ppl my real name. I feel like I’m protecting a part of myself from strangers by offering the nickname. unnecessary but I am growing fond of it. Now my name feels more intimate. To be used by ppl who know me. By ppl I trust. <3
