{"id":383,"date":"2008-04-01T21:45:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-04-02T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:58:08","slug":"are-you-in-the-wrong-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/are-you-in-the-wrong-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you in the wrong job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/7323033.stm\">UK poll suggests that 20% of people are in a job unsuited to their skills<\/a>.\u00a0 This is certainly wasteful but may be unsurprising given the preoccupation people have with griping about work.\u00a0 But is it really that bad?\u00a0 It is probably better than it has been historically because job mobility in higher than in previous decades and screening is improving.\u00a0 However, it does highlight the benefits of finding out what you like and what you are good at and then earning a living doing that.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bigger trend emerging (with virtual workspace, telecommuting etc) is the phenomenon of parallel careers: having more than one job at once.\u00a0 This is the choice we have made because it makes life interesting and enables us to share time and interests with family and community more wholesomely: parent, gardener, janitor, accountant, editor, business analyst, coach &#8211; all at the same time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK poll suggests that 20% of people are in a job unsuited to their skills.\u00a0 This is certainly wasteful but may be unsurprising given the preoccupation people have with griping about work.\u00a0 But is it really that bad?\u00a0 It is probably better than it has been historically because job mobility in higher than in &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/are-you-in-the-wrong-job\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are you in the wrong job?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-6b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}