{"id":148,"date":"2005-01-10T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/10\/new-job\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T23:22:06","slug":"new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/10\/new-job\/","title":{"rendered":"New Job!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have accepted a position at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobster.com\">year-old startup company<\/a> as IT Lead, which is not only a positive career move, but also entails a nice raise. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I gave my two weeks&#8217; notice today, and will start the new job on Wed, January 26th. My new boss is an old colleague of mine who left earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>For a while now, it has felt to me like my current company is on a downward slide. Many good people have already left, and I feel like the product quality is slipping (because we don&#8217;t have enough people to do the work).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to be joining a company that is well funded and growing. I&#8217;ll be employee #26, and they plan to have more than 40 employees in the next 3-4 months. It seems like a dynamic, smart group of people, and a great opportunity for me to learn a lot. I&#8217;m getting hired based on what I WILL learn (and how fast I can learn), rather than what I already know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have accepted a position at a year-old startup company as IT Lead, which is not only a positive career move, but also entails a nice raise. \ud83d\ude42 I gave my two weeks&#8217; notice today, and will start the new job on Wed, January 26th. My new boss is an old colleague of mine who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}