{"id":1852,"date":"2013-02-23T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/02\/23\/are-you-afraid\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T07:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T06:40:25","slug":"are-you-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/02\/23\/are-you-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"are you afraid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you should be.<\/p>\n<p>People in IT tend to complain about their jobs a lot. The most common themes, in no particular order, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Job is boring.<\/li>\n<li>Job is too well paid to find a better one.<\/li>\n<li>Boss is annoying.<\/li>\n<li>Overworked (for no apparent reason).<\/li>\n<li>Corporations suck, but I feel to comfortable to find a startup job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One thing is notably missing: no one complains about being afraid, <strong>EVER<\/strong>. The only emotion there is boredom. People simply get stuck in their less-than-ideal jobs and stay there, often for years. When asked about the possibility of finding something better, they dismiss it as <em>too disruptive<\/em>. How lazy is that?<\/p>\n<p>If you find quitting your comfortable IT job too hard, too disruptive, too risky, you&rsquo;re not reasonable or sensible &#8211; you&rsquo;re just plain lazy. If you don&rsquo;t feel afraid, <strong>you&rsquo;re not pushing your limits far enough<\/strong>. And if you feel bored, you&rsquo;re <strong>not pushing them at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you should be. People in IT tend to complain about their jobs a lot. The most common themes, in no particular order, are: Job is boring. Job is too well paid to find a better one. Boss is annoying. Overworked (for no apparent reason). Corporations suck, but I feel to comfortable to find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}