{"id":3058,"date":"2009-10-20T07:21:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2009-10-20T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:30:15","slug":"in-which-her-dream-job-disappears-into-the-ether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/in-which-her-dream-job-disappears-into-the-ether\/","title":{"rendered":"In which her dream job disappears into the ether"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/in-which-she-quits-her-job-and-joins-the-army\/\">this<\/a>?  Poof, it&#8217;s gone.  Hiring freeze.  The day before I was supposed to start. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken a while to get the paperwork together.  (Only about nine weeks.)  We were waiting on an hourly basis for final approval from on high, and just before that happened &#8212; department-wide hiring freeze.  No signatures, no new job.  And the very worst part?  Had the paperwork gone through just a little quicker, like a week or so, maybe a couple of days, I would have been in.<\/p>\n<p>In the grand scheme of things, I know I&#8217;m lucky.  I still have a job, a job I loved until I heard about the other one.  Nobody is sick, nothing catastrophic has happened, nothing has been lost except opportunity.  And the bus pass I cancelled. And the promotion of the girl who was going to replace me.   And the two hours each day of recovered commuting time.  And my dream job.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.  I just want to go home and cry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this? Poof, it&#8217;s gone. Hiring freeze. The day before I was supposed to start. It&#8217;s taken a while to get the paperwork together. (Only about nine weeks.) We were waiting on an hourly basis for final approval from on high, and just before that happened &#8212; department-wide hiring freeze. No signatures, no new job. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/in-which-her-dream-job-disappears-into-the-ether\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which her dream job disappears into the ether&#8221;<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}