{"id":796,"date":"2009-12-16T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/12\/16\/tuesday-night-advice\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T03:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T07:16:00","slug":"tuesday-night-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/12\/16\/tuesday-night-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night &#8211; advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_522413863\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t    I was on the phone 8AM until 6PM without even a break for lunch, yet when I left for the day I was feeling refreshed and energized.. I got half way ome trying to figure out why I felt\u00a0 so jazzed after what should have been a grueling day.. Then I realized what I&#8217;d been doing all day. 8 of my 16 meetings (yes.. 16 !) today had to do with my day job. Pretty interesting stuff these days. especially some of the new stuff I&#8217;m focusing on.. The other 8 meetings.. were about mentoring and advice..\u00a0\u00a0 That is\u00a0 .. me acting as the grizzled Yoda character and some young person who&#8217;s twice as smart as me comes and asks for my advice on job, career, school, etc. .. I grunt occasionally and make a few nonsensical remarks.. then they thank me profusely and hang up.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why suddenly my advice&#8211;giving numbers are up. I suppose it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s near the end of the year and everyone;s under stress.. or feeling philisophical as the holidays roll around. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m enjoyign my work much more these days and folks can smell it on me ?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think the advice I give is always that good.. but what I can say is that giving advice makes one feel better. It&#8217;s funny how working on someone else&#8217;s troubles makes your own seem less important.. It&#8217;s also so true that it&#8217;s easier to work on someone else&#8217;s issues than your own.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not so sure exactly why.. but I have to say I&#8217;m grateful for the opportunity.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s it for tonight.. get back to work &#8230;. may the force be with you.. !<\/p>\n<p>Nite friends.. nite Sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"327\" src=\"http:\/\/c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com\/images02\/124\/l_1710155990434e4b93a84e3a6cff318e.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the phone 8AM until 6PM without even a break for lunch, yet when I left for the day I was feeling refreshed and energized.. I got half way ome trying to figure out why I felt\u00a0 so jazzed after what should have been a grueling day.. Then I realized what I&#8217;d been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/12\/16\/tuesday-night-advice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday night &#8211; advice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}