{"id":2757,"date":"2014-08-01T22:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2014-08-01T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:00:00","slug":"free-spirit-trapped-in-corporate-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Free Spirit Trapped in Corporate World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-screenshot_2014-08-01-18-14-08.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screenshot_2014-08-01-18-14-08.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-screenshot_2014-08-01-18-14-08.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My six-word memoir got featured in the Editor&#8217;s Picks today! Haha, cheap thrill! \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Straight off the bat, I can tell you I&#8217;m no corporate warrior; I don&#8217;t have this burning desire to scale to the top of the corporate ladder. However that doesn&#8217;t mean I want to stagnate in my job. I still want to be able to learn new skills and feel like I&#8217;m progressing. <\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not ambitious in a power hungry sense of the word, that&#8217;s not to say I don&#8217;t have dreams. It&#8217;s just that my dreams don&#8217;t have anything to do with the corporate world. I have never really been concerned about building a career and accumulating work experience so much as I have been about chasing life experiences. Perhaps in that sense I have been more &#8220;successful&#8221; than the average Joe. <\/p>\n<p>However, the reality is that I still need to remain in the corporate world to pay the bills and enable myself to buy more life experiences. At this point in time, work is more a means to an end. Well, I guess it&#8217;s important to keep those dreams alive in my heart and have them serve as motivation at work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My six-word memoir got featured in the Editor&#8217;s Picks today! Haha, cheap thrill! \ud83d\ude42 Straight off the bat, I can tell you I&#8217;m no corporate warrior; I don&#8217;t have this burning desire to scale to the top of the corporate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2757\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[30,29],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings","category-musings-mullings","tag-dreams","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}