{"id":386,"date":"2007-12-12T00:38:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T04:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2007\/12\/12\/opportunity-rising\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T00:38:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T04:38:36","slug":"opportunity-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2007\/12\/12\/opportunity-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very bad at trying to pick gifts for my family. It&#8217;s an obnoxious process that taxes my patience. But anyway.<\/p>\n<p>An opportunity may be arising at another Big Government Agency which I may apply for. It would be a step up in responsibilities, and a good career move. I&#8217;m not entirely certain if I&#8217;m ready for it, but there are extraneous factors which argue for applying now or missing the opportunity entirely. Given my particular specialty this isn&#8217;t surprising &#8211; a similar situation arose when my current position came open (though I was certainly much more ready to go when that one came open!). I&#8217;ve been told it&#8217;s going to be posted, so I&#8217;m keeping my eyes open, and I&#8217;ve asked a mentor (who mentioned the opening in the first place) to keep his ears open for when it&#8217;s posted so I can look it over and decide whether to apply. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t look forward to polishing my resume, but that&#8217;s simply a necessary evil in the process. To be honest, the possibility is a bit intimidating. But again, this is a now-or-never kind of thing, and I think I want to try for it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very bad at trying to pick gifts for my family. It&#8217;s an obnoxious process that taxes my patience. But anyway. An opportunity may be arising at another Big Government Agency which I may apply for. It would be a step up in responsibilities, and a good career move. I&#8217;m not entirely certain if I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}