{"id":5408,"date":"2017-10-12T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wobben.org\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2020-02-02T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:20:22","slug":"my-dream-job-is-ending-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/our-home-life\/at-work\/my-dream-job-is-ending-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"My dream job is ending soon! :("},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5409 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud-105x105.jpg 105w, https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/wordcloud.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Office job ends &#8211; will creative entrepreneur opportunities triumph or will it be back to fluorescent lights and stale office air?<\/p>\n<p>A good week ago I learned that at the end of the year, my casual, work-at-home office job for Canada Life (Great West Life technically) will come to an end after almost ten years! Work has been so low that I&#8217;ve only worked 10 hours\/week (instead of my usual 25ish) for months. And since some of our work has been moved to an India team a few years ago, our headcount had to come down. Not sure what they have in store for the permanent full-timers in the long run, but right now it&#8217;s the end of the line for the three casuals who were still on board \ud83d\ude41 We saw it coming, but it still sucks!<\/p>\n<p>My brain immediately went into overdrive and I&#8217;m researching my creative options first (like expanding my website business and starting a web store for crafty\/artsy stuff), as I&#8217;m dreading to give up my freedom and would prefer to do home-based jobs. I realize though that I may just have to dust off my dressier clothes and look for &#8216;normal&#8217; part-time or casual (preferably data-entry non-phone) jobs out there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office job ends &#8211; will creative entrepreneur opportunities triumph or will it be back to fluorescent lights and stale office air? A good week ago I learned that at the end of the year, my casual, work-at-home office job for Canada Life (Great West Life technically) will come to an end after almost ten years! Work has been so low &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/our-home-life\/at-work\/my-dream-job-is-ending-soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[1047],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-work","tag-office-job","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7740,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/7740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}