{"id":65,"date":"2006-12-17T02:42:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T02:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayfly.net\/?p=65"},"modified":"2006-12-31T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T19:53:38","slug":"carrer-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Career path?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been thinking a lot about my &#8220;career&#8221; recently. These two quotes struck me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>George Monbiot&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monbiot.com\/archives\/2000\/06\/09\/choose-life\/\">take<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The advisers say that a career path like this is essential if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to fall into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trap\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of specialisation: that is to say, if you want to be flexible enough to respond to the changing demands of the employment market. But the truth is that by following the path they suggest, you are becoming a specialist: a specialist in the moronic recycling of what the rich and powerful deem to be news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Naughton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/molly.open.ac.uk\/Personal-pages\/OAQs.htm\">take<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m a bit suspicious of the idea of a &#8216;career&#8217; &#8212; it sounds like something out of control.  It&#8217;s a media concept like &#8216;lifestyle&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been thinking a lot about my &#8220;career&#8221; recently. These two quotes struck me&#8230; George Monbiot&#8217;s take: The advisers say that a career path like this is essential if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to fall into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trap\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of specialisation: that is to say, if you want to be flexible enough to respond to the changing demands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}