{"id":83,"date":"2001-08-29T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-30T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2001-08-29T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-30T00:56:00","slug":"83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little uneasy these days.  I have to get a really real job in less than five months.  In a very competitive job market.  While the economy slides into recession.  As one of the most expendable positions in any given company:  a designer.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>God will work it all out; I know He will.  I just need to translate this newfound source of motivational energy into actual work.  That&#8217;s the rub.  The thermodynamics of motivation:  transferring passion from one area of application to another.  Which, for me, translates to taking the metaphorical pot off the &#8220;car and mechanics interest&#8221; burner on my motivational stovetop and placing it on the &#8220;design, sketching, and portfolio&#8221; burner.  Ah, if only it were that easy.<\/p>\n<p>*congratulates himself on creating the most outlandish, convoluted metaphors to date*<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well. I&#8217;m a little uneasy these days. I have to get a really real job in less than five months. In a very competitive job market. While the economy slides into recession. As one of the most expendable positions in any given company: a designer. *sigh* God will work it all out; I know He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}