{"id":121,"date":"2008-11-02T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T10:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/30dayloa.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2008-11-02T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T10:13:10","slug":"bizarre-influx-of-job-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/bizarre-influx-of-job-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre influx of Job Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Jobsearch\" src=\"http:\/\/30dayloa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jobsearch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"82\" \/>I wrote a post over at CrystalsQuest a week or so ago, about a choice I was facing to either pursue a higher paid job opportunity (the goal being to pay off my mortgage and free myself from having to work) or stay where I was and keep working on my long term strategy of passive income.\u00a0 In the end, I decided that it would be better to stay in my current job &#8211; I thought the other position offered something more like the illusion of progress, and I&#8217;d end up losing my time in exchange for the higher money.\u00a0 Not something I want to head towards at all.\u00a0 In the process, though, I clarified that it wasn&#8217;t just money I was after.\u00a0 In fact, that having the choice of <em>how<\/em> I made my money was more important to me than simply earning more.<\/p>\n<p>I felt good about that decision.\u00a0 It felt like a step forward, towards clarity.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, though, that having done that, I&#8217;ve spent the last week having jobs just about thrown at me from all directions!\u00a0 I browse the web and the sites I surf suddenly have ads for jobs in my local area.\u00a0 I call up about a technical issue at work, and in the process of working with them to resolve it end up getting an offer to shift across there.\u00a0 Even helping a colleague out with a different software issue, and then feeding back to their specialist area I got another.\u00a0 Now I don&#8217;t want them, they&#8217;re coming thick and fast!<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that this means I&#8217;m making some progress, and that having clarified my issues around work and what I eventually want to achieve, maybe all the tests that were queued up for me are just being moved out of the way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very funny, though.\u00a0 After spending so much of my life as a jobseeker, NOW I discover the secret to getting job offers galore is to decide you don&#8217;t want them and start knocking them back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a post over at CrystalsQuest a week or so ago, about a choice I was facing to either pursue a higher paid job opportunity (the goal being to pay off my mortgage and free myself from having to work) or stay where I was and keep working on my long term strategy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,18,9,23],"tags":[5,37,93,125,70],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-funny","category-law-of-attraction","category-personal-journey","tag-clarity","tag-goals","tag-jobseeker","tag-law-of-attraction","tag-loa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30dayloa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}