{"id":1412,"date":"2007-09-04T23:38:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T06:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2007-09-05T23:54:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T06:54:45","slug":"is-that-really-what-i-want-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Is that really what I want to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I meet people from time to time who love their jobs. I find them to be a curiosity, mostly. But after I had a meeting with my boss&#8217;s boss today (who seems to be kind of wondering what to make of us), a co-worker asked, &#8220;Is Windows programming what you really want to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She has pointed out that she has the out of having kids and taking care of them instead of playing nice with Megacorp and taking whatever they dish out. I don&#8217;t have that option. And, honestly, Windows programming is NOT what I want to do, but it beats not having a job.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have to find some different reading for the commute to work. I subscribe to a couple of magazines and I figured I could work on the unread stack while riding on the light rail. But I only really have ham radio magazines that I go through quickly and <i>Men&#8217;s Health<\/i>. <i>Men&#8217;s Health<\/i> does have a lot of articles on, well, men&#8217;s health, but it also has a lot of articles on boobies and such. I find it rude to be reading such things on the light rail next to other people. Perhaps I am uptight. Anyway, I suppose if I read a novel on mass transit it could very likely be text about boobies and such. At least I will look more studious from far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meet people from time to time who love their jobs. I find them to be a curiosity, mostly. But after I had a meeting with my boss&#8217;s boss today (who seems to be kind of wondering what to make of us), a co-worker asked, &#8220;Is Windows programming what you really want to do?&#8221; She has pointed out that she has the out of having kids and taking care of them instead of playing nice with Megacorp and taking whatever they dish out. I don&#8217;t have that option. And, honestly, Windows programming is NOT what I want to do, but it beats not having a job. I think I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is that really what I want to do?<\/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-1412","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\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}