{"id":408,"date":"2006-06-15T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T20:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/06\/15\/making-widgets\/"},"modified":"2006-06-15T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T20:54:49","slug":"making-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2006\/06\/15\/making-widgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to one of my best friends recently about our respective jobs.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a lawyer.\u00a0 She does marketing for a high profile company.\u00a0 We both work crazy hours.\u00a0 We make a\u00a0good living.\u00a0 We&#8217;re doing what women before us fought for.\u00a0 We&#8217;re treated as equals to men (for the most part).\u00a0 We should be happy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we&#8217;d like to make widgets.\u00a0 There&#8217;s something satisfying about having a finished physical product and knowing when a task is complete, in seeing the\u00a0tangible connection between your efforts and the end results.\u00a0 We both realized we missed that in our jobs.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a sense of incompletion when tasks merely lead to more tasks.\u00a0 When paper begets more paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I&#8217;m sure if I was making widgets, I&#8217;d fine something to complain about then too!\u00a0 =)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to one of my best friends recently about our respective jobs.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a lawyer.\u00a0 She does marketing for a high profile company.\u00a0 We both work crazy hours.\u00a0 We make a\u00a0good living.\u00a0 We&#8217;re doing what women before us fought for.\u00a0 We&#8217;re treated as equals to men (for the most part).\u00a0 We should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawyering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}