{"id":138812,"date":"2023-09-02T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138812"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:38:56","slug":"i-love-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/i-love-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"I love my job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hour 13<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Development practitioner<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just a glorified volunteer<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three to five unpaid internships<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because I am a do-gooder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dreamt of being a global traveller<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have to settle with meetings on Teams<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thought I\u2019d be making the world better<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nothing is ever what it seems<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blames everything on past colonials<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet financially dependent on neoliberals<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flashy words like governmentality<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Far removed from reality<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Say I\u2019m not after fame<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">But my choice of profession boosts my ego<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Say I\u2019m not after money<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">But my dream job at the UN would make me rich<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When people ask what I do<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I get confused by my own answer<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Half the time wondering how I got here<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other half I\u2019m just glad they\u2019re finally paying me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because I fucking love my job<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 13 Development practitioner Just a glorified volunteer Three to five unpaid internships Because I am a do-gooder &nbsp; Dreamt of being a global traveller Have to settle with meetings on Teams Thought I\u2019d be making the world better Nothing is ever what it seems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138839,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138812\/revisions\/138839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}