{"id":3704,"date":"2010-01-10T21:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:29","slug":"stop-acting-like-you-have-a-set-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/stop-acting-like-you-have-a-set-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop acting like you have a set path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things.\u00a0 Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy.\u00a0 Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don\u2019t.\u00a0 No one does.\u00a0 You shouldn\u2019t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren\u2019t real and they were created by other people, not you.\u00a0 There is no explicit path I\u2019m following, and I\u2019m not walking in anyone else\u2019s footsteps.\u00a0 I\u2019m making it up as I go.&#8221; &#8211; <a href='http:\/\/charliehoehn.com\/2009\/08\/29\/thoughts-on-tour\/'>Charlie Hoehn<\/a>, who has had some interesting career moves himself. Roughly approximates what I&#8217;ve been learning myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things.\u00a0 Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy.\u00a0 Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don\u2019t.\u00a0 No one does.\u00a0 You shouldn\u2019t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren\u2019t real and they&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/stop-acting-like-you-have-a-set-path\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-XK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}