{"id":2045,"date":"2016-04-04T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2016-04-04T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T00:57:45","slug":"a-job-that-did-not-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2045","title":{"rendered":"A Job That Did Not Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post describes my current job. It&#8217;s still going strong, as far as my boss is concerned (so far as I can tell), but it&#8217;s winding down so far as I am concerned, and I plan to announce this to my boss at tomorrow&#8217;s regularly-scheduled meeting.<\/p>\n<p>When I took it, I had my qualms that it might not be the best of matches. The screening process contained a surprising amount of front end Javascript questions (such coding is not my strong suit). Plus the more I heard about it, the more I had doubts the position could furnish the sort of engrossing challenges I need. I mentioned these concerns and was assured that my impressions were incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>The past six months have served to convince me that I was in fact correct. It&#8217;s getting to the point where I dread new assignments. It&#8217;s clearly time to start thinking about moving on if things can&#8217;t change dramatically (and I frankly doubt they can).<\/p>\n<p>The only real question is what kind of ending can be worked out, which largely depends on their needs (if they only or mostly have a need for someone to do the sort of work I regard as unpleasant drudgery, the end will come sooner rather than later).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post describes my current job. It&#8217;s still going strong, as far as my boss is concerned (so far as I can tell), but it&#8217;s winding down so far as I am concerned, and I plan to announce this to my boss at tomorrow&#8217;s regularly-scheduled meeting. When I took it, I had [&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-2045","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\/2045","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=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}