{"id":8,"date":"2003-08-09T20:01:26","date_gmt":"2003-08-09T20:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2003-08-09T20:01:26","modified_gmt":"2003-08-09T20:01:26","slug":"life-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Life changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be going through my 30-something crisis. I have gotten to the point where I want to do something for a living that I enjoy. Anyone know where I can get $10,000 worth of digital photographic equipment for free? Huh? Didn&#8217;t think so. <\/p>\n<p>I was reading a book on being self employed. The author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0762724838\/qid=1060480192\/sr=2-2\/ref=sr_2_2\/102-0399015-3324930\">Kenn Oberrecht <\/a> made a great point. He said that many people considering their own business fear they lack self-motivation and self-discipline. These people still must have these qualities to hold a regular job, get to work on time, and meet family obligations. Great food for thought. <\/p>\n<p>Now I just need some direction. I want to be a photographer, work with computers (which you can do in photography) and be a writer (blogging anyone?) Of course I&#8217;m not good enough at any of them to make a living out it. Maybe I should do something about that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nThe scratch on my nose from the new kitten is getting better. She is still a terror though. Its amazing how annoying and aggressive a 2 lb kitten can be when she decides she wants to share the cereal in my bowl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be going through my 30-something crisis. I have gotten to the point where I want to do something for a living that I enjoy. Anyone know where I can get $10,000 worth of digital photographic equipment for free? Huh? Didn&#8217;t think so. I was reading a book on being self employed. The author &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life changes&#8221;<\/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-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}