{"id":3225,"date":"2011-11-18T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2011-11-18T12:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T22:40:49","slug":"i-love-my-new-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/i-love-my-new-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"I love my new workplace."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far I&#8217;m enjoying my new role as webmaster for the Community College. Yes, it&#8217;s challenging&#8230;not because of the actual technical work (because I&#8217;ve done web production many many times), but more so because of the way the academic environment works and how long it takes to get things decided.<\/p>\n<p>But there are a lot of not-so-obvious perks to working here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of &#8220;toys&#8221;. Because it&#8217;s a role that ends up supporting faculty&#8230;they&#8217;re constantly ordering new equipment for me to review. I feel like I&#8217;m working for a tech blog or something. I&#8217;m getting new laptops every couple months, new wacom tablets, maybe a new tablet, netbooks, etc. All for the purpose of reviewing what works for the campus staff. It&#8217;s like geek heaven. I told my wife, &#8220;I&#8217;m collecting toys&#8230;let em keep coming&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In immeasurable benefit of the department(s) I work with right now is that every one is super friendly and supportive of each other. These are genuinely happy and funny people and so that attitude rubs off. I guess after working on my own for the last 6 years, I didn&#8217;t notice the benefit that comes from this kind of\u00a0camaraderie.<\/li>\n<li>Sounds like they may give me my own office. Sure, it&#8217;ll be one of those old brick offices with no windows to the outside world. But it&#8217;s a perk that I don&#8217;t take for granted. Maybe I can find a way to personalize it somehow. Hmmm&#8230;maybe I&#8217;ll get those <a href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=1721\" target=\"_blank\">funky wall art<\/a> for my new office and some cozy lounge chairs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Because I believe life goes in cycles, I&#8217;m bracing for when I might lose all of this&#8230;but for now, I&#8217;m just basking in the sun.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far I&#8217;m enjoying my new role as webmaster for the Community College. Yes, it&#8217;s challenging&#8230;not because of the actual technical work (because I&#8217;ve done web production many many times), but more so because of the way the academic environment works and how long it takes to get things decided. But there are a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}