{"id":1314,"date":"2007-06-01T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T07:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2007-06-01T00:45:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T07:45:22","slug":"circling-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"Circling the drain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today I received my fourth rejection email from an internal Megacorp transfer. I went home early right after that because, well, I haven&#8217;t had much to do lately. In fact, the choices are either to spend weeks learning British double-entry accounting procedures for a five-second test, or to spend all day looking online for cell phone deals. You can guess which one I picked.<\/p>\n<p>My friends and my sister think I should just sit around and collect a paycheck for as long as I can. This sounds like a clear path to career suicide, but since I&#8217;ve proved I can&#8217;t legitimately get a job it&#8217;s probably not a big deal. I get bored, though, and I&#8217;ve put up with crap there much longer than I ever have in the past. I predict I will be out on the streets soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today I received my fourth rejection email from an internal Megacorp transfer. I went home early right after that because, well, I haven&#8217;t had much to do lately. In fact, the choices are either to spend weeks learning British double-entry accounting procedures for a five-second test, or to spend all day looking online for cell phone deals. You can guess which one I picked. My friends and my sister think I should just sit around and collect a paycheck for as long as I can. This sounds like a clear path to career suicide, but since I&#8217;ve proved I can&#8217;t legitimately get a job it&#8217;s probably not a big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1314\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Circling the drain.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}