{"id":410,"date":"2009-05-11T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/11\/how-dumb-am-i\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T22:37:00","slug":"how-dumb-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/11\/how-dumb-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"How dumb am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Important things I forgot to mention in my last post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve had a chat with my boss, and I&#8217;m now <em>much<\/em> more confident about keeping my job when my contract runs out in November! The exact source of my salary &#8211; and therefore my job description &#8211; is still to be decided, but my boss and other PIs have seen enough benefit from having me around that they want to keep me. I won&#8217;t truly believe I&#8217;m safe until I&#8217;ve seen a new contract* and\/or the first paycheque after the end of my original contract, but I&#8217;m feeling a lot more secure right now.<\/li>\n<li>It was my two year blogiversary on Saturday! I only figured this out about 10 minutes ago, when I had to read <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/joy-of-citation.html\">my first-ever post <\/a>for actual valid work-related reasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">*I need to re-read the original contract to figure out whether I&#8217;ll need to sign a new one, or just keep on working away with no need for documentation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important things I forgot to mention in my last post: I&#8217;ve had a chat with my boss, and I&#8217;m now much more confident about keeping my job when my contract runs out in November! The exact source of my salary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/05\/11\/how-dumb-am-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,41,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-meta","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}