{"id":1,"date":"2024-06-24T22:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-06-24T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T22:41:10","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/2024\/06\/24\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I initially chose computer science because I&#8217;ve always been \u201cpretty good\u201d with general computer related stuff. However, I think technically I probably would have been better at doing IT stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I decided to get my 2nd degree in computers science because I wanted to work in the tech industry because of the promise of high paying careers that provides stimulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I currently work in the health care industry, and at some point, the work becomes fairly \u201cboring\u201d and mundane. Throughout my career, I hit that mental roadblock of \u201cI can&#8217;t be doing this for the rest of my life, can I\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, if I figured a better time to learn something new and switch was when I am about to turn 40 years old. You only live once, right?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I&#8217;m about to graduate and finish, I still honestly can&#8217;t figure out exactly where I see myself working. Personally, I don&#8217;t see myself working in any of the major tech industries&#8217; Ala MSFT, Google, Amazon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I see myself working in areas that suit my personality, such as maybe bioinformatics or something that brings good positive change in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/\">blogs.oregonstate.edu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I initially chose computer science because I&#8217;ve always been \u201cpretty good\u201d with general computer related stuff. However, I think technically I probably would have been better at doing IT stuff.\u00a0 I decided to get my 2nd degree in computers science because I wanted to work in the tech industry because of the promise of high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/briandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}