{"id":345,"date":"2010-01-26T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emme.socialduchess.com\/2010\/01\/26\/good-things-afoot\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:27:00","slug":"good-things-afoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/26\/good-things-afoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Things Afoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, I&#8217;ve been hoping to find a full-time job since my last semester ended and I&#8217;m only taking a half-time course load this semester.&nbsp; The tricky part is that I&#8217;m obviously not finished with my IT degree, but that&#8217;s the field I want a job in (British history is just not a bustling industry, sadly), more specifically working with Oracle (which is really hard to get into without experience).&nbsp; So, yesterday I started casting my net a little wider, and applied to this company that my friend works for&#8230; and this morning I got a call back from them!&nbsp; I am very excited, so cross your fingers for me!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As if that wasn&#8217;t enough excitement for one day, a little while later I got another call and it was a *head hunter* (or recruiter, as they prefer), who found my resume on Dice!&nbsp; Unfortunately, he didn&#8217;t really READ my resume well and wanted someone with RAC experience, but it was still really neat to have a random stranger call up and try to offer me a job!&nbsp; So, I&#8217;m a big dork and I&#8217;m getting a huge kick out of this lucky streak I&#8217;ve been having, and I really hope it keeps up long enough for me to get into a great position!&nbsp; Oh, and here&#8217;s one of the suit pictures that somehow managed to miss Bobo playing trains over my shoes.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xAj6Sussycc\/S18z4KQotBI\/AAAAAAAAB_4\/jccdzs9equs\/s1600-h\/mesuit.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xAj6Sussycc\/S18z4KQotBI\/AAAAAAAAB_4\/jccdzs9equs\/s320\/mesuit.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, I&#8217;ve been hoping to find a full-time job since my last semester ended and I&#8217;m only taking a half-time course load this semester.&nbsp; The tricky part is that I&#8217;m obviously not finished with my IT degree, but that&#8217;s the field I want a job in (British history is just not a bustling industry, sadly), more specifically working with Oracle (which is really hard to get into without experience).&nbsp; So, yesterday I started casting my net a little wider, and applied to this company that my friend works for&#8230; and this morning I got a call back from them!&nbsp; I am very excited, so cross your fingers for me!&nbsp; As if that wasn&#8217;t enough excitement for one day, a little while later I got another call and it was a *head hunter* (or recruiter, as they prefer), who found my resume on Dice!&nbsp; Unfortunately, he didn&#8217;t really READ my resume well and wanted someone with RAC experience, but it was still really neat to have a random stranger call up and try to offer me a job!&nbsp; So, I&#8217;m a big dork and I&#8217;m getting a huge kick out of this lucky streak I&#8217;ve been having, and I really hope it keeps up long enough for me to get into a great position!&nbsp; Oh, and here&#8217;s one of the suit pictures that somehow managed to miss Bobo playing trains over my shoes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everafter.emmechatterton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}