{"id":1253,"date":"2009-02-17T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T01:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2009-02-17T18:05:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T01:05:56","slug":"sick-as-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"sick as a dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, the dogs are fine. I&#8217;m the one that was sick today. On the bright side I did spend between 16-18 hours sleeping &#8211; between visits to the porcelain altar of illness &#8211; so I should have managed to catch up on my sleep debt at least. The baggage under my eyes appears to be decreasing.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I get the feeling that I&#8217;ve selected the wrong career path. There&#8217;s slim pickin&#8217; in my field. I even went so far as to apply for a technical position this evening in the hopes that I can fall back on what I used to do &#8216;<em>back in the day<\/em>&#8216;. I&#8217;ve been in training and education since 2003 and that&#8217;s a LONG time to be out of the networking and software support world. Best I can hope for are junior positions.<\/p>\n<p>Not that a junior position is bad. Especially not ones with travel involved and a minimum salary similar to what I&#8217;m leaving. We all know I love to travel. It&#8217;s just that I can understand some prospective employers might think my skills are too old and rusty to take the risk of hiring me.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully they won&#8217;t be too put off. I&#8217;m a quick learner and a dedicated employee. At least I like to think I am. One thing about work-a-holics raised in the &#8216;<em>absolutely, positively, whatever it takes<\/em>&#8216; mantra of my favourite global shipping conglomerate (and first contract employer). We&#8217;re very hard working.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I suspect that the fall back position of EI and school is about to become a reality. Not that I would mind going to school full-time for a year to finish the degree. I&#8217;m just not sure how we&#8217;d afford it if I&#8217;m not working. Ok. Must stop thinking now. Thinking leads to worrying and I&#8217;ve promised myself that I&#8217;m NOT going to worry this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Off to do some homework. Perhaps that&#8217;ll cheer me up. Or at least get my mind off of the work situation for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, the dogs are fine. I&#8217;m the one that was sick today. On the bright side I did spend between 16-18 hours sleeping &#8211; between visits to the porcelain altar of illness &#8211; so I should have managed to catch up on my sleep debt at least. The baggage under my eyes appears to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}