{"id":52,"date":"2009-03-14T15:57:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlbandgeek.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-03-14T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T21:57:17","slug":"winds-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Winds of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned on Thursday that my position at Sprint has been axed. It&#8217;s been a great place to work for the last 10 (!) years, but it appears the time for new opportunities has come. I will certainly miss all the wonderful people I worked with, as well as the excitement of working with cutting edge (well, mostly) technology.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53\" title=\"windsofchange\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlbandgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/windsofchange-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Winds of Change - Skyline Drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winds of Change - Skyline Drive<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also miss my daily trips along Skyline Drive, with its spectacular views, weather and ever-changing driving conditions. On the other hand, I won&#8217;t miss the three hours of daily lost time, the gas expenses and my contribution to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>I still have two weeks of work. After that I&#8217;ll have around 6 months of severance pay &#8211; thank God! I can begin looking for employment closer to home, as well as learning more about web design, of course. And I hope to some side projects for actual money in the next months, too.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions for how to begin a job search in these troubled times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girlbandgeek&#8217;s ten years as a network engineer with Sprint are coming to an end. Any suggestions? <a href=\"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/?p=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[5,10],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-musings","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}