{"id":121,"date":"2011-09-19T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T02:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=121"},"modified":"2011-09-19T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T02:57:21","slug":"well-so-much-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Well, So Much for That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this trip was to interview for a job at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humboldt.edu\/\">Humboldt State University<\/a> in Arcata, CA. Humboldt County is one of those places I&#8217;ve fallen in love with on my travels, and it would be something of a dream to live there.<\/p>\n<p>A dream because high-tech jobs are practically nonexistent there (and in pretty much any of the other rural areas of the Northwest I dream of moving to). So it was hard not to fantasize during the time between being informed they wanted to fly me down for an interview and the interview itself.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, it seems pretty obvious from the course of questioning during the interview that they want someone with significantly more Oracle database experience than I have. And since Oracle experience is easy to find, odds are very high they&#8217;ll find it in one of the other finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least I get a couple free days in redwood country out of it, and the icing on the cake is not having to move yet again (which I&#8217;d still do in a heartbeat if I got an offer, of course, but it&#8217;s something that definitely made the job opening a mixed blessing and not an unadulterated one).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this trip was to interview for a job at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. Humboldt County is one of those places I&#8217;ve fallen in love with on my travels, and it would be something of a dream to live there. A dream because high-tech jobs are practically nonexistent there (and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}