{"id":1690,"date":"2013-08-09T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2013-08-09T16:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T22:04:38","slug":"job-opps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Job Opps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifty gazillionth &#8220;Thanks, but no thanks &#8211; we&#8217;ve decided to pursue other candidates for our open job position&#8221; postcard I just\u00a0received today causes me to pause and\u00a0reflect on my career options.\u00a0\u00a0At which point I\u00a0realize I&#8217;m actually really, really lucky.<\/p>\n<p>What?!\u00a0\u00a0<em>LUCKY<\/em>?!?\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1604\">we&#8217;re up all NIGHT to get lucky<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 Well &#8212; I can really only use the word &#8220;lucky&#8221;\u00a0when I compare my job opportunities to those of women long ago.\u00a0 Oh&#8230;say&#8230;during Game of Thrones time.<\/p>\n<p>There were very limited options for women back then.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see, there was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>queen<\/li>\n<li>whore<\/li>\n<li>Lady of Winterfell<\/li>\n<li>miller&#8217;s wife<\/li>\n<li>whore<\/li>\n<li>chambermaid<\/li>\n<li>kitchen wench<\/li>\n<li>whore<\/li>\n<li>crofter&#8217;s daughter<\/li>\n<li>baker&#8217;s wife<\/li>\n<li>crone<\/li>\n<li>spearwife (it&#8217;s a whole thing I can&#8217;t get into now)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Very few of those jobs have any appeal.\u00a0 Except for Queen (natch!).\u00a0 Do you think if 1) Game of Thrones was REAL and 2) set in an accessible part of the world,\u00a0not\u00a0in middle earth during dragon times and 3) they had invented universities by then and 4) allowed women to attend said\u00a0universities and 5)\u00a0invented advanced degrees and 6)\u00a0then allowed women to GET\u00a0advanced degrees, that my\u00a0having an MBA would make me a BETTER\u00a0candidate for the Queen role?<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t think so either.\u00a0 But the\u00a0&#8220;thanks, but no thanks&#8221; postcards would have been\u00a0much more interesting:\u00a0all parchment-y with awesome calligraphy sent by carrier pigeon or\u00a0some such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifty gazillionth &#8220;Thanks, but no thanks &#8211; we&#8217;ve decided to pursue other candidates for our open job position&#8221; postcard I just\u00a0received today causes me to pause and\u00a0reflect on my career options.\u00a0\u00a0At which point I\u00a0realize I&#8217;m actually really, really lucky. What?!\u00a0\u00a0LUCKY?!?\u00a0 (we&#8217;re up all NIGHT to get lucky).\u00a0\u00a0 Well &#8212; I can really only use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}