{"id":61,"date":"2008-08-14T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T04:25:31","slug":"my-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"My Last Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is my last day in the office at BigPark, the Vancouver company that I work for. The jet-setting lifestyle between Vancouver and California has been pretty interesting, but it seems that it may be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of hope for the company, and remain a big supporter financially and intellectually. We have a great team and some great products in the pipeline. I expect I will be doing a fair bit of consulting in the coming months for our initial product launch and transition network operations.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? I will be in Vancouver another month, enjoying the rest of the summer and packing up my apartment, then heading back to California. For the first time in years, I do not have a job. And this is intentional. My goal is to take at least a year off having a day job so I can relax, travel, and work on a few personal projects.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m nervous about this big change, and a little sad about this transition. I know there will be a lot of things I will miss. Yet, I&#8217;m excited with anticipation about what the future will bring. And we&#8217;ll see if having free time makes me lazy or drives me crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is my last day in the office at BigPark, the Vancouver company that I work for. The jet-setting lifestyle between Vancouver and California has been pretty interesting, but it seems that it may be coming to an end. I have a lot of hope for the company, and remain a big supporter financially and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=61\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Last Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}