{"id":2612,"date":"2017-07-26T21:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T04:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2017-07-26T21:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T04:20:05","slug":"tech-work-and-alternate-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"Tech Work and Alternate Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, chalk up another blown interview. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s just age discrimination at work (and deliberately creating impossible hurdles as a pretext) or just trends moving in ways that I am fundamentally incompatible with (so much of the &#8220;agile&#8221; trend might more accurately be described as &#8220;give software developers as little privacy and personal space as possible, and maximize the number of interruptions they are subject to&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, it&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that today&#8217;s tech workplace is probably not for me. I could make yesterday&#8217;s work, but that was yesterday, and yesterday is gone.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m increasingly thinking it&#8217;s time to move on to something else. The big question is what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, chalk up another blown interview. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s just age discrimination at work (and deliberately creating impossible hurdles as a pretext) or just trends moving in ways that I am fundamentally incompatible with (so much of the &#8220;agile&#8221; trend might more accurately be described as &#8220;give software developers as little privacy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","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=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}