{"id":51,"date":"2006-10-18T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drewlisa.dreamhosters.com\/wpblog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2006-10-18T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T14:15:50","slug":"a-new-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/2006\/10\/a-new-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted, and the reason is because I haven&#8217;t had any definite things to say!  However, now that it&#8217;s official I can make the important announcement: I quit my job!  Of course, I had a new one lined up.  However, deciding between my options was quite a task and I don&#8217;t think Lisa was too happy that I spent half our week long family vacation on the phone negotiating job offers.<br \/>\nNevertheless, I can now officially tell you that I left Accenture on October 6th, 2006 after 5+ years to become a semi-independant IT contractor for Charles Schwab in the position of Senior Systems Analyst.  I started my position yesterday and so far I love it!  I&#8217;ll be working with the stock traders to design, program, and repair various reports that give them the information they need to do their job.  So far I&#8217;ve just done a lot of reading (privacy laws, corporate policy, SEC regulations, etc) but I really enjoy the people I work with and am excited to get going on the programming side of it.  So thank you for all your prayers as they sure seem to have paid off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted, and the reason is because I haven&#8217;t had any definite things to say! However, now that it&#8217;s official I can make the important announcement: I quit my job! Of course, I had a new one lined up. However, deciding between my options was quite a task and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drewlisa.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}