{"id":151,"date":"2009-12-10T05:45:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-12-10T05:45:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T10:45:13","slug":"redundant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Redundant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I lost my job today.<\/p>\n<p>Being made redundant is a funny beast. On one hand, you&#8217;ve lost your damn job. On the other hand, suits give you a big wad of cash. It&#8217;s hard to hold a grudge against someone that is depositing a lump sum into your bank account.<\/p>\n<p>It still hasn&#8217;t really hit me, I guess. I actually feel like a bit of a weight has been taken from my shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>The trick is now going to be to find a new job. I have a couple of prospects including a very timely meeting scheduled for tomorrow, but I&#8217;m in a quandary:<br \/>\nDo I grab the first job I find with both hands &#8211; I have a family to support now, after all.<br \/>\nOr, do I take this opportunity to try something new and potentially fall into my dream job?<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I&#8217;m thinking that it might be best to stick with what I know. A change would be nice, but not necessarily prudent. It would be great to land a dream job working with <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/\">Gizmodo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valvesoftware.com\/\">Valve<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/\">Google<\/a> (go search engines, GO!), but is it likely? I need some sort of sign&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nope-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"nope\" title=\"nope\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I lost my job today. Being made redundant is a funny beast. On one hand, you&#8217;ve lost your damn job. On the other hand, suits give you a big wad of cash. It&#8217;s hard to hold a grudge against someone that is depositing a lump sum into your bank account. It still hasn&#8217;t really &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Redundant&#8221;<\/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-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}