{"id":1976,"date":"2007-07-26T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/progress\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:57:11","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/26\/progress\/","title":{"rendered":"progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>some of you know\/have talked to me about my goals and desires for this new job i&#8217;ve taken.  i know i&#8217;ve done my fair share of bitching here when the foxfire is hot and heavy, but there are some really good things to this position.  despite more hours\/responsibility, i&#8217;m getting heaping spoonfuls of recognition, and a significant amount of leeway in terms of reliability and experimentation\/exploration.  in places past, i&#8217;ve always had to fight for forward momentum &#8211; cost fighting is just a part of the game, but this was fighting on a different level.  even after i had convinced users, and user-end management to buy into a tech solution, i&#8217;d have to fight with the IT folks to get them to embrace it.  9\/10 i was shut down.<\/p>\n<p>i knew crossing back over to IT was going to be hard, and, though it is exciting sometimes (and a drag others) i&#8217;ve made the transition pretty well. based on the review i got a few weeks ago, i certainly seem to hold myself to a higher standard than those evaluating what i bring to the organization.  today, my boss asked me to sit in on an interview for a new hire (tomorrow as well).  as per most of the things i&#8217;ve been doing lately that take the most of my time\/energy, this has little\/nothing to do with the job i was hired for, but speaks well to my long-term goal of positioning myself into a organizational leader\/CIO role.  the interview is for a position parallel to mine, but working with finance, instead of fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>down with dope, up with hope!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/3011\/crackchild5pp.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some of you know\/have talked to me about my goals and desires for this new job i&#8217;ve taken. i know i&#8217;ve done my fair share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-busy","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}