{"id":174,"date":"2007-01-03T00:31:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T00:31:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-03T00:31:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T00:31:04","slug":"the_end_of_a_short_chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2007\/01\/03\/the_end_of_a_short_chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of a Short Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.gentoo.org\/developers\/seemant\/2006\/12\/22\/white_christmas_without_the_snow\">we left for Christmas vacation<\/a>, I found out from my boss that the Developer Relations Manager role that I&#8217;d been filling for the last few months was going to be dissolved.  The reason for this is that the company&#8217;s focus is shifting to be more in line with its revenue and other goals for this year.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today (Jan 2) was the day that that happened, so as of this morning, I&#8217;ve been laid off.  I wish I could say &#8220;easy come, easy go&#8221; but this one was not so easy to come by, so I&#8217;m pretty sad to have it go.  I&#8217;ll miss working there and I&#8217;ll always wonder what would have happened to the DevZone and other outreach stuff that I planned for this quarter (<a href=\"http:\/\/planet.gentoo.org\/developers\/seemant\/2006\/12\/15\/nice_streambase_write_up\">like the 12 articles I&#8217;d been working on<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll say this: I enjoyed my experience in marketing, and I certainly hope that my next job opportunity will allow me to continue to grow in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we left for Christmas vacation, I found out from my boss that the Developer Relations Manager role that I&#8217;d been filling for the last few months was going to be dissolved. The reason for this is that the company&#8217;s focus is shifting to be more in line with its revenue and other goals for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2007\/01\/03\/the_end_of_a_short_chapter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The End of a Short Chapter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}