{"id":24,"date":"2007-05-13T21:30:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2007\/05\/13\/buyers_regret\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T21:30:35","slug":"buyers_regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2007\/05\/13\/buyers_regret\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyer&#8217;s regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The buyer&#039;s regret is starting to sink in. Today was damn hot, and I packed my CDs, a task that took an episode of <em>Grey&#039;s Anatomy<\/em> and two episodes of <em>Law &amp; Order<\/em> to finish. The weatherman said the 90-degree high today was unseasonably warm. My apartment hasn&#039;t really cooled down all day.<\/p>\n<p>It made me realize that with 273 more square feet of space comes a proportional increase in my utilities bills. Electricity is already a killer, and it will be moreso come July and August. Water, I&#039;m sure, will double. I&#039;m considering getting rid of the telephone land line and &#8212; diety forbid &#8212; go entirely cellphone. My land line is the spam catcher of my phone &#8212; all the unwanted calls get directed there.<\/p>\n<p>I also have another option &#8212; find a new job. I&#039;ve been getting calls from staffing agencies, wanting to hook me up with their clients. I haven&#039;t followed up on any such leads. I do have a phone interview on Monday with the CTO of a media company. He contacted <em>me<\/em>, which means something, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve characterized my job search so far as passive. I&#039;m not looking for anything, but I wouldn&#039;t mind being found. And while I do like the stability my current job offers, the pay will always be an issue.<\/p>\n<p>This moving thing has really thrown some screwdrivers into the gears. I liked the idea of a new job when it was an option. Now it&#039;s looking more like a necessity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buyer&#039;s regret is starting to sink in. Today was damn hot, and I packed my CDs, a task that took an episode of Grey&#039;s Anatomy and two episodes of Law &amp; Order to finish. The weatherman said the 90-degree high today was unseasonably warm. My apartment hasn&#039;t really cooled down all day. It made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkgj-o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}