{"id":716,"date":"2007-04-13T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/13\/your-assignment-for-today\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:34:27","slug":"your-assignment-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Your Assignment For Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go over Ed&#8217;s and wish him good luck on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/009676.php\">his career change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday, I start my new full-time position with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/\"><strong><font color=\"#685e3d\">Blog Talk Radio<\/font><\/strong><\/a> as Political Director and will provide full-time commentary through my blog and my new daily BTR show. The phrase &#8220;dream come true&#8221; is hackneyed, but in this case the clich\u00e9 applies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTR is making a good investment!<\/p>\n<p>Changing careers can feel like stepping off the end of a dock with a blindfold on.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve changed careers twice (like Ed, now); I was lucky the first time, in that going from radio to technical writing was a huge step up in pay and stability.\u00a0 Changing from that into what I do now &#8211; Human Experience Design &#8211; was much more a leap of faith, since it was a market that hadn&#8217;t really taken off in the Twin Cities when I made the jump (although, gratifyingly, it has in the nine years since).<\/p>\n<p>Jumping from service management to Blog Talk Radio, of course, is a <em>huge <\/em>leap of faith, but Ed&#8217;s the kind of guy who&#8217;ll make it work.<\/p>\n<p>But everyone wish him good luck anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go over Ed&#8217;s and wish him good luck on his career change. On Monday, I start my new full-time position with Blog Talk Radio as Political Director and will provide full-time commentary through my blog and my new daily BTR show. The phrase &#8220;dream come true&#8221; is hackneyed, but in this case the clich\u00e9 applies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}