{"id":398,"date":"2017-07-29T04:26:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essn.us\/?p=398"},"modified":"2017-07-29T04:26:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T04:26:20","slug":"livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essn.us\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Livelihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a link to an essay on the job changing mentality that I hope to finish reading later: &#8220;The CEO of Me&#8221;. What caught my attention is the following excerpt&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\nA highlight for the white collar worker: &#8220;[T]o keep stock prices high, companies not only have to pay their employees as little as possible, they must also have as temporary a workforce as their particular business can allow&#8221; (para. 8).<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters?utm_source=pocket&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=pockethits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How work changed to make us all passionate quitters<\/a> by Ilana Gershon (2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a link to an essay on the job changing mentality that I hope to finish reading later: &#8220;The CEO of Me&#8221;. What caught my attention is the following excerpt&#8230; &#8220;When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit&#8221; A highlight for the white collar worker:&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,49],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-career","tag-livelihood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}