{"id":398,"date":"2006-03-21T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2006-03-21T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T19:44:10","slug":"dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2006\/03\/dream-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be feeling a little bit better&#8230;I&#8217;m starting to resent going to work.<\/p>\n<p>During my recent illness and seemingly endless recovery (will I ever get back to normal?  I have no idea), going to work became a symbol of normalcy.  If I could get out of the house to go to work, function at my desk and do my job, I must be OK.  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning I was packing my lunch and all I could think was &#8220;I wish I didn&#8217;t have to go today.  I&#8217;d love to just stay home today.&#8221;  In talking with The GirlFriend this morning I mentioned that what I&#8217;d really love to do is stay home.  Her response: &#8220;And do what?&#8221;  Which got me to thinking: what would I do if I stayed home?<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have kids and I have a real problem being dependent on someone else for money, so barring winning the lottery, just being a couch potato is pretty much out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>My dream job: I work from home for a web design\/development firm doing nothing but taking designers&#8217; comps, slicing them up, creating CSS and XHTML templates for web sites and testing them in various browser environments, making about $45K a year.<\/p>\n<p>So, why wasn&#8217;t that on my high school aptitude test?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be feeling a little bit better&#8230;I&#8217;m starting to resent going to work. During my recent illness and seemingly endless recovery (will I ever get back to normal? I have no idea), going to work became a symbol of normalcy. If I could get out of the house to go to work, function at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}