{"id":1152,"date":"2005-01-15T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T21:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/postcorporate_e"},"modified":"2005-01-15T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T21:06:26","slug":"postcorporate_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Post-Corporate Existence &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate life is perhaps the most challenging and remunerative period of a person&#8217;s working existence. But, like sky diving and fire walking, there comes a time when living in the corporate fast lane begins to pall. There comes a time when you long for the weekend and it&#8217;s only Monday. That&#8217;s when you wistfully dream of an existence outside the corporate enclave, in a place where reason prevails and where you set the schedule. But, you shake your head and with a rueful smile prepare for the next staff meeting.<\/p>\n<p>But the dream, once contacted, doesn&#8217;t go away. Even in the midst of a corporate cheerleading frenzy, your mind pictures a simpler existence where you work at a pace which provides time for&nbsp; love and for watching your children grow. You don&#8217;t know how to get there but you know it exists. You hear rumors of this post-corporate existence, and your heart beats faster. Someday, you vow, someday, you will find a way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This weblog was started one and a half years ago to document life in the post-corporate zone. It is not unlike the twilight zone in that it takes a special kind of person to see clearly what opportunity exists in this unknown commercial vista, populated by castaways and non-conformists. <\/p>\n<p>The recent discovery of the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/longtail.typepad.com\/the_long_tail\/2005\/01\/definitions_fin.html\">long tail<\/a>&quot; phenomena in marketing and in blogging, opens the door to a better understanding of the long tail phenomena in respect to jobs. While the preponderance of financial opportunity lies in the brief years of frantic pursuit of success as a corporate soldier, there are millions of people earning a decent living and enjoying an enviable lifestyle during their post-corporate existence.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first of a series of posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/post-corporate\" rel=\"tag\">post-corporate<\/a> existence. You can expect some accompanying changes in the brand identity of this blog during the course of the next few posts.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Tag: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/post-corporate\" rel=\"tag\">post-corporate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate life is perhaps the most challenging and remunerative period of a person&#8217;s working existence. But, like sky diving and fire walking, there comes a time when living in the corporate fast lane begins to pall. There comes a time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1801],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-iA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}