{"id":74,"date":"2025-04-07T19:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:29:22","slug":"napowrimo-2025-day-3-career-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/napowrimo-2025-day-3-career-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 3: Career moves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Career moves<\/strong><br><br>My father had a TV repair business.<br>Before that, he&#8217;d worked for a TV repair business,<br>and before that, he&#8217;d had a TV repair business,<br>and before that, he&#8217;d had a TV repair business.<br>The one that prospered dealt in service contracts<br>with hotels, hospitals, and the like. No walk-ins<br>from working families needing their <em>Laverne &amp; Shirley<\/em>.<br>My father was not passionate about TVs or repairs.<br>If he could have made more money sweeping floors<br>with no boss, he would have done that.<br>Before learning television repair<br>he&#8217;d been a mechanic, he&#8217;d sold cookware<br>door to door, he&#8217;d driven a cab.<br>He worked hard when he had to,<br>didn&#8217;t when he didn&#8217;t. Fished, played Yahtzee,<br>read the Bible. Sold Norm&#8217;s TV just before<br>people traded <em>fix<\/em> for <em>replace<\/em>. (That poor buyer!)<br>My father moved with Mom, who continued to use<br>that cookware he used to sell, to a small farm<br>with a little pond. He raised one calf a year<br>for the beef, read the Bible a lot,<br>watched TV even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Carl Bettis<\/em><br><em>2025-04-03<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 3)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 3: &#8220;Career moves&#8221; by Carl Bettis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,7],"tags":[11,12,10],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-napowrimo-2025","category-poetry","tag-napowrimo","tag-napowrimo-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}