{"id":1655,"date":"2010-12-03T08:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T13:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:40:32","slug":"a-new-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2010\/12\/a-new-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last month I have been wondering what I should be doing with my career and what direction I should take.\u00a0 I have been struggling with going into management or pursuing a security cert direction [CISSP].\u00a0 Part of my problem is that my company is not really into paying for Boot Camps or the week long training courses with the certification test at the end.<\/p>\n<p>As I have been going through this process I started listening to Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk.\u00a0 In this book he focuses on pursuing what you love and doing that one thing.\u00a0 I took the initiative and started to write down the things that I love to do.\u00a0 One of those things is my religion which I dedicated to &#8230; the other is my job and hobby.\u00a0 Computers!\u00a0 So, I started to write about the things that I like about computers and what drives me and what things I really like about computers.<\/p>\n<p>While these things were rolling around in my head; I remembered that my boss told me he didn&#8217;t want to lose me since I am his resident Apple expert &#8230; then it hit me, Apple Certifications.\u00a0 The group I am working for right now will create a need for more Apple hardware and those who know how to use and monitor and SysAdmin those machines.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Gary for getting me to think about what I am doing and where I need to move my career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last month I have been wondering what I should be doing with my career and what direction I should take.\u00a0 I have been struggling with going into management or pursuing a security cert direction [CISSP].\u00a0 Part of my problem is that my company is not really into paying for Boot Camps or the week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6,386,721,698,60,652,690,680,247,47,170,722],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-story","tag-apple","tag-books","tag-certification","tag-computers","tag-education","tag-gary-vaynerchuk","tag-hardware","tag-love","tag-mac","tag-religion","tag-security","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}