{"id":280,"date":"2001-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:10:20","slug":"perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/280","title":{"rendered":"perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to be digging through some old cds recently (I&#8217;m a packrat when it comes to data&#8230;), and I stumbled upon something I&#8217;d written about a couple years ago or so&#8230; It was intended as a user profile for a (somewhat exclusive, wink wink) BBS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentext.com\/products-and-solutions\/products\/specialty-technologies\/firstclass\">FirstClass<\/a> calls it a resume). Interesting perspective&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo, the resume. There was once a time when I spent a significant amount of time updating my resume every few days, but that time has long since passed. Or has it? Here I am, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Because this is all highly illegal, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll get into anything identifiably personal, such as my name, where I live, etc, etc. I&#8217;m a 21 year struggling to get out of a suburban nightmare. I like to think that someday all of these tribulations of mine would make a fine book, but I&#8217;m not yet sure if it would be a commedy, a tragedy, or a drama &#8211; probably all of the above.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure. While a healthy outlook on life is important, it takes more than that. It might sound like I know the &#8220;secret to success&#8221;, but really, I don&#8217;t. I only know what *doesn&#8217;t* work. The basic qualities of laziness, uncertainty and poverty mixed in with a little bad luck can create amazingly intricate socio-economical clusterfucks, in the wallows of which I squirm like a horse caught in quicksand.<\/p>\n<p>At least it&#8217;s not a boring life, though. I get to play with reasonbly cool toys, even if fate won&#8217;t let me own any myself. Life on the lamb definitly keeps the blood flowing, as I&#8217;ve discovered lately. The unlimited possibilities of online life monopolizes most of my time, but that&#8217;s nothing new. My current work schedule doesn&#8217;t really allow for too much tedium, unless of course you consider sleep boring :P All of that coupled with spontaneity and occasional recklesness keeps things generally interesting.<\/p>\n<p>In the big picture, I&#8217;d have to say that I&#8217;m content with myself as a person at this point, even if not with my current situation. Situations can be remedied, though, which is what occupies my thoughts frequently (but generally not until I&#8217;m trying to fall asleep). So there you have it; perhaps my shortest resume ever &#8211; in 5 paragraph essay form, no less ;)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to be digging through some old cds recently (I&#8217;m a packrat when it comes to data&#8230;), and I stumbled upon something I&#8217;d written about a couple years ago or so&#8230; It was intended as a user profile for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/280\">Continue reading <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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}