{"id":33,"date":"2022-05-13T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/?p=33"},"modified":"2022-05-13T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T04:12:10","slug":"thats-not-a-real-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/2022\/05\/13\/thats-not-a-real-job\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That&#8217;s not a real job&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was surreal being in a big city at a big tech company. There was swag and expensive equipment waiting for me at my very own desk, free lunch and so many beverages! I&#8217;m a beverage fiend so this was all very acceptable. I commuted on the train each morning and squeezed in some gym time occasionally before heading home at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I felt so relieved and yet defeated, but mostly excited. I was having fun. I couldn&#8217;t believe I didn&#8217;t have to wear down my body all day or shout small talk at strangers doing something in the service industry like I always imagined I would have to do. Although my hourly wage was pitiful by tech industry standards for someone coming out of coding bootcamp, I was already making more than my parent&#8217;s income combined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I told my brother the news, he said &#8220;that&#8217;s not a real job&#8221;. I wasn&#8217;t sure what I wanted to do more, laugh uncontrollably in agreement or get defensive and feel hurt. Looking back on it now, I find it hilarious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was surreal being in a big city at a big tech company. There was swag and expensive equipment waiting for me at my very own desk, free lunch and so many beverages! I&#8217;m a beverage fiend so this was all very acceptable. I commuted on the train each morning and squeezed in some gym [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/sharpkel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}