{"id":82,"date":"2005-09-26T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=82"},"modified":"2005-09-26T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T01:24:38","slug":"new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"New Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started my job today.  It was&#8230;not good. The highlight of the day was realizing how good the benefits are.  <\/p>\n<p>I discovered that I have a different position than originally described and the department is going through radical changes that they either just found out about or hid how unstable it was during the interviews.  I feel a bit deceived.   <\/p>\n<p>I had a bad feeling about accepting this job but it was the best offer, the work that sounded most challenging and seemed to fit best with the sort of career that I made for myself.  And the benefits and pay are great.  When I got there today I felt lost, out of place, not myself and worried that I had made the wrong decision.  <\/p>\n<p>The drive home was tiring, I hoped after a dinner of grilled cheese and soup, a little rest on the couch, I would be ready to jump into craft land.  That didn&#8217;t happen. I&#8217;m empty and still not myself.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s another day.  I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s better<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/images\/P8181137.jpg\" height=\"226\" width=\"300\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"P8181137\" \/><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>I miss Pounce a lot today &#8211; he always knew when I need a little kitty love to cheer me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started my job today. It was&#8230;not good. The highlight of the day was realizing how good the benefits are. I discovered that I have a different position than originally described and the department is going through radical changes that they either just found out about or hid how unstable it was during the interviews. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}