But then when I got to the practice of law I found out everyone uses their middle initial professionally.
That explains Mark E. Salomone. I think it's very awkward.
I sign my middle initial on my checks (and a good thing too, since my signature is basically capital letters and horizontal lines), but don't use it professionally or in correspondence.
I use my first initial very rarely, but it does come up.
I don't usually use my middle name or initial, but I still inital things EJO. (Actually, ejo, because that looks prettier in script, and that's what's really important).
I'd cheerfully go by ita Suzanne. I just don't feel a need to be ita Suzanne
t lastname
ever. Or ita S
t lastname
.
Too much, too many.
When I was a bank teller, we had to initial things a lot, and I made up a thing where my j and f in cursive looked like an H. Now I kind of toss an F in with a horizontal line across the JH.
But then when I got to the practice of law I found out everyone uses their middle initial professionally.
I use my middle initial in signatures and initials and whatnot, mostly because my real name is so common. There's another one at my job now, there was another one at my law firm (not the same person), and there were nine of them in my old bank's system.
When I initial things, I use all three. But my signature doesn't have my middle name in it. (Technically, my signature doesn't have any letters in it at all. It's very scribbly.)
(Technically, my signature doesn't have any letters in it at all. It's very scribbly.)
the S and the T are clear, but then it's just a kind of wiggly line. If I'm feeling precise, I might throw in a J.
I left out my middle initial in initialing things as well, both because I had decided not to use it anyway and because I think SMM is unbalanced.
Don't give into the peer pressure, bon!