{"id":941,"date":"2011-06-13T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=941"},"modified":"2011-06-13T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T09:16:00","slug":"941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2011\/06\/13\/941\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sleepless in Tempe.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways I think I&#8217;ve gone totally nuts.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 The path my life has taken me.<\/p>\n<p>Jobless.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s enough to make me somehow lose my self-worth.<\/p>\n<p>I cant stand going through time and feeling like I&#8217;m sliding backwards.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even feel like I&#8217;m pushing forward at all.\u00a0 Just a constant backward pull.\u00a0 What can I do?\u00a0 I have begun to entertain the idea of going back to school and finishing up.\u00a0 Even if I just wind up with that stupid piece of paper that the world finds so much value in.. At least I&#8217;d feel like along this life of mine I was able to accomplish something.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have an answer.\u00a0 I wish I did but it&#8217;s simply not there.<\/p>\n<p>I wish that failure wasn&#8217;t such a prevelant part of my life.\u00a0 I also wish that I could hear God speak.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to be able to say that I&#8217;ve never wandered&#8230; But like that Chris Rice song&#8230; we are prone to wander.<\/p>\n<p>Things otherwise have been pretty good.\u00a0 Haha, funny but true.<\/p>\n<p>I got fed up with some issues I was having with the ipod touch.\u00a0 I returned it.\u00a0 It was freezing and they had tried resetting it in the store to no avail.  I gave up.  It simply cost too high a price to have various basic complaints.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway on the sports front&#8230; the Mavs beat the Heat to win it all last night.\u00a0 Who would have thought?\u00a0 Glad it happened though.<\/p>\n<p>It is now past 2:30 am &amp; I am wide awake.\u00a0 Ugh.  Yet it&#8217;s still like 80 or 90 some degrees outside.  Bleh.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard back from either job yet.\u00a0 Chase and US Airways are M.I.A. so who knows what will happen.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping for some good news because  even if isn&#8217;t a job ill love working, something is better than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt anyone still reads this blog but&#8230; Here is a question for you all.\u00a0 As a Christian.. during an interview should white lies (or any lie for that matter) be acceptable?\u00a0 Aka Id hate to work call center again + I can&#8217;t stand the rate of pay but during interviews I obviously say otherwise so I at least hold a chance on just having a job again.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s not right.. but what are your thoughts on it?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.. that&#8217;s all I have for this episode.<br \/>\nI think I&#8217;ll go turn on some music.<\/p>\n<p>just Pray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleepless in Tempe. In some ways I think I&#8217;ve gone totally nuts.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 The path my life has taken me. Jobless. It&#8217;s enough to make me somehow lose my self-worth. I cant stand going through time and feeling like I&#8217;m sliding backwards.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even feel like I&#8217;m pushing forward at all.\u00a0 Just a constant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1635,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2012\/12\/14\/mid-december\/","url_meta":{"origin":941,"position":0},"title":"Mid-December","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"December 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, So it's already the middle of December and tomorrow my temp job ends. 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