{"id":806,"date":"2008-05-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2008-05-07T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T11:00:00","slug":"for-love-or-money-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/07\/for-love-or-money-or-both\/","title":{"rendered":"For Love or Money (or Both)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SCGahrESkGI\/AAAAAAAABYA\/0k05XDnimoo\/s1600-h\/images-2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SCGahrESkGI\/AAAAAAAABYA\/0k05XDnimoo\/s200\/images-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My father always told me, &#8220;Follow your passion and the money will follow.&#8221;  Since leaving the academia track, I&#8217;ve definitely<a href=\"http:\/\/girlwithpen.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/womens-studies-work-outside-ivory-tower.html\"> been following my passion<\/a>, and the money, well, still kinda waiting for it to catch up in spades.  Along the way, however, I&#8217;ve found my bliss so I know that there&#8217;s no turning back.  The topic is the focus of a <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisguillebeau.com\/3x5\/follow-your-passion-the-blogger-roundup\">blogger roundup over at The Art of Nonconformity.<\/a>  Definitely worth checking out.   And big thanks to Marci Alboher, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/19\/business\/smallbusiness\/18webshifting.html?ei=5124&amp;en=f84114ab385ee7da&amp;ex=1339992000&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink&amp;adxnnlx=1210161648-zK1wL9T\/nB9xHtC+mUTfdg\">covered the topic in her New York Times column Shifting Careers<\/a>, for the heads up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notsalmon.com\/2006\/06\/does-money-bring-more-love-happiness.html\">Image cred<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father always told me, &#8220;Follow your passion and the money will follow.&#8221; Since leaving the academia track, I&#8217;ve definitely been following my passion, and the money, well, still kinda waiting for it to catch up in spades. Along the way, however, I&#8217;ve found my bliss so I know that there&#8217;s no turning back. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4124],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}