Professional Game Job Email Question

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Sorry, this might be a too off topic question. But, I wish to publish my game portfolio soon with my professional job email soon.

I really have a problem to create a professional job email, because my name Alan Chan with my yc middle name initial is way too common inside gmail. I have tried everything like alan.yc.chan, yc.alanchan, yc.alan.chan, alan.ycc, alan.yc.c, and nothing still works. I even have tried alan.art.cs and still does not work in gmail. The cs stands for computer science. And, I think adding numbers like alanchan99 is not really a professional email. So, I finally have give up trying to find a gmail. So, I am looking forward for Outlook email instead. I heard that the Outlook email is more for a small business owners, because Microsoft have created Outlook and those Microsoft office that is kind of for a business usage.

My main question do you think Outlook email will be outdated someday after many years later? In this video, it said you should never use a out dated email service provider. But, even though this video told us to create your own email domain to stop your email from being outdated. I still do not feel like creating my own email domain yet.

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Making a domain is the way to go. You can get a .com and hosting extremely cheap (well under $100) with unlimited email addresses and it’s pretty easy to setup.

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Are you still suggesting making my own domain is a better idea? Even though I want to find a game job inside my short term goal. Because, I think most people who is creating their own domain is actually their own company domain name instead.

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Plenty of people host their own personal domain, too, where they can also showcase their CV/resume. It lets you have a short, memorable email address.

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Also usually multiple email addresses, so you can properly sort business inquiries, press inquiries and others.

And /dev/null for fanmail :v

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Oooh so people like the guy in the video are the reason all good domain names are taken with no website being hosted on them. I see, I see.

Well if I come across someone that owns a domain just because “it makes their email look serious”, and don’t actually host anything there, I’ll just assume they’re “not taking bidnis seriously”.

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I think we’re talking about domains like alanchan.com, where one’s email address could be alan@alanchan.com and one could host a resume, rather than something like worldsbestgamestudio.com with nothing hosted there.

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I look at alot of profiles over at artstation.com, couldn’t care less about their email actually. But I dont need to copy it or write it manually I can just click the e-mail symbol and Outlook-starts with the email predefined. Maybe if I had to write it manually I would reflect more over it, maybe…