I feel almost exactly the opposite about the work I published- I don't want anyone to look it up and ask me about it, ever, because I'll be forced to admit that

I feel almost exactly the opposite about the work I published- I don't want anyone to look it up and ask me about it, ever, because I'll be forced to admit that I was writing about things I had no knowledge of by a guy who wanted to be able to list as many publications as possible on his academic website. The work I did had basically no relation to the industry it was for, which is the industry I now work in. I got the job I'm in because of the work I did, but mostly because the people I work for now are even less technical than my academic adviser was, and were impressed by the people he knew and how long his list of publications was. Apply this 10x for the patents my name is on. For clarification, I quit two years into a PhD program and have been working in the industry for the last four years.