{"id":333,"date":"2010-06-24T19:21:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-06-24T19:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T02:22:11","slug":"6232010-1038am-cst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"6\/24\/2010 &#8211; 10:38am CST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was the minute I (was) walked out of my current employer&#8217;s building &#8211; not to come back the next day. After 11.5 years I had decided it was time for a change and jumped on an opportunity that was too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>Though I was prepared to quit, I wasn&#8217;t prepared for the emotional roller coaster that unfolded from so many colleagues and friends stopping by to say a quick good-bye. I had a hard time to keep my composure and felt almost relief when I finally left the building.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now enjoying a couple of weeks of time off before starting on my new assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Turning my back on a successful company with a career that was successful was the hardest thing I&#8217;ve done in a long time! Time will tell if it was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was the minute I (was) walked out of my current employer&#8217;s building &#8211; not to come back the next day. After 11.5 years I had decided it was time for a change and jumped on an opportunity that was too good to pass up. Though I was prepared to quit, I wasn&#8217;t prepared for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6\/24\/2010 &#8211; 10:38am CST<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}