{"id":129,"date":"2014-07-14T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T02:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2014-07-14T19:57:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T02:57:24","slug":"a-fortnight-on-the-dole-or-the-american-equivalent-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"A Fortnight on the Dole, or the American Equivalent thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago today, I left my place of employment for the last time. My backpack held a folder full of documents pertinent to my departure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three checks: one for the last pay period, one for my last day, which fell in a different pay period, and one for the two-plus weeks of accrued PTO. All three checks deposited within five minutes of leaving the building.<\/li>\n<li>A copy of my severance agreement, which stipulates, among other things, that I cannot divulge the contents of said agreement.<\/li>\n<li>Instructions for signing up for unemployment. I took care of this the next morning.<\/li>\n<li>Instructions for signing up for COBRA for when my medical-insurance coverage runs out after 30 days. I&#8217;ll probably take care of this at the last possible moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My idea of hitting the ground running was to go hit a bar right away. I even had some whiskey, not a lot, just enough to make me regret it. It takes a lot less whiskey to trigger regret. The same rule applies to a lot of things.<\/p>\n<p>The last two weeks have been mostly uneventful, an existence made up in large part of food, beer, coffee, and Netflix. This wouldn&#8217;t be a bad way to go if I were independently wealthy and completely lacked ambition or a work ethic.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, I haven&#8217;t been a complete slug. I had a job interview and wrote a new piece of flash fiction. The story turned out to be pretty good, the interview not so much. I figure it&#8217;s a lot better to screw up a job interview than it is to screw up an actual job. That&#8217;s sound wisdom. All I need now is a job to put that to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago today, I left my place of employment for the last time. My backpack held a folder full of documents pertinent to my departure: Three checks: one for the last pay period, one for my last day, which fell in a different pay period, and one for the two-plus weeks of accrued PTO. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/?p=129\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Fortnight on the Dole, or the American Equivalent thereof<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poisonspur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}