{"id":1800,"date":"2013-10-28T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2013-10-28T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:35:04","slug":"over-experienced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2013\/10\/28\/over-experienced\/","title":{"rendered":"Over-experienced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my very first job, I was asked to fill in a paper form to allow a secretary to type up an internal resume that could be pushed around to clients to get contracting gigs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aside\">Paper forms? Secretaries? Hey, it was a long time ago &#8211; even before the iPhone 1. Hell, it was before the Newton was released.<\/div>\n<p>When I proofread the resume, I found that she had misread my handwritten &#8216;C++ experience&#8217; (a programming language) as &#8216;C# experience&#8217; (at the time, meaningless gibberish). I sent back a correction.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in 2000, Microsoft released a new language: C#.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, I was kicking myself. If I hadn&#8217;t made that correction, I would be bragging about over a decade of C# experience. I would be *so* employable when everyone else was maxing out at three years and my actual resume didn&#8217;t mention it at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I used C# well before the iPhone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}