{"id":6972,"date":"2014-05-10T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2014-05-10T06:52:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T10:52:30","slug":"career-i-should-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6972","title":{"rendered":"Career I Should Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I played an on-line game titled, &#8220;what career should you have?&#8221;  It asked questions about preferences, giving five choices for each one.  For example, &#8220;Do you want to be in charge of others?&#8221; and &#8220;what would you buy with a holiday bonus?&#8221;  A total of 10 questions predicts what career you &#8220;should&#8221; have.<\/p>\n<p>What did it suggest for me?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirefighter&#8230; &#8220;You are a very strong person, quick on your feet, fast thinker and the owner of a very big, brave heart. You accomplish great things, but are always very modest about it. You were meant to save other people&#8217;s lives.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the description that it came up with, and I felt it was accurate.  However, my chosen career is not a firefighter.  What I do for a living is related to that field, and I am an honorary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=3552\" target=\"_blank\">life member of my local fire department<\/a> in recognition for a long tradition of voluntarism with that department.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was amusing.  I&#8217;m not going to change jobs, though I definitely appreciate what firefighters do and how big their hearts are.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  enjoy what you do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I played an on-line game titled, &#8220;what career should you have?&#8221; It asked questions about preferences, giving five choices for each one. For example, &#8220;Do you want to be in charge of others?&#8221; and &#8220;what would you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}