{"id":218,"date":"2009-02-25T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-02-25T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:09:34","slug":"im-working-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m working on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI have never been here before.<\/p>\n<p>Since the age of 5 I have always been working towards achieving something, be it my next swimming badge, finding the courage to dance with Scott Thomas during a &#8216;slow song&#8217; at the school disco,\u00a0passing my GCSEs, A-Levels, Degree, learning to drive\u00a0and beavering away at my CV to\u00a0get &#8216;the job&#8217; and then working solidly for two years to qualify in it. Now that\u00a0I am a week away from learning whether I may add &#8216;MSc&#8217; to the end of my name, I find myself in a bit of a strange place&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>What do I do next?<\/p>\n<p>It is\u00a0rather a strange sensation and one that I had not planned on. To be honest\u00a0for years now\u00a0I have\u00a0just looking forward to a day when I didn&#8217;t have to write essays\u00a0every night when I got home, and I didn&#8217;t\u00a0think ahead much further than that. Now I have options and I&#8217;m not sure what to do with them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As 2009 is however the official year for sorting things out (including finishing painting the porch), I am determined to get to the bottom of the issue. I think it may involve a change of job however&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think for sanity&#8217;s sake, it&#8217;s worth it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been here before. Since the age of 5 I have always been working towards achieving something, be it my next swimming badge, finding the courage to dance with Scott Thomas during a &#8216;slow song&#8217; at the school disco,\u00a0passing my GCSEs, A-Levels, Degree, learning to drive\u00a0and beavering away at my CV to\u00a0get &#8216;the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}