{"id":339,"date":"2006-07-19T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T19:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/quit-your-job-work-is-a-sham-by-ted-rall\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T21:56:29","slug":"quit-your-job-work-is-a-sham-by-ted-rall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/quit-your-job-work-is-a-sham-by-ted-rall\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Quit Your Job, Work is a Sham&#8221; by Ted Rall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime readers of this website may recall that <a href=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/01\/rall-ity-check\/\">I am a fan of Ted Rall<\/a>. In 1995, Ted published an article in a now defunct magazine titled &#8220;<em>Quit Your Job, Work is a Sham<\/em>&#8220;. I remember seeing photocopies of it posted in my workplace, and it really spoke to me, primarily because my job sucked. Much has changed since then  &#8212; Ted has become a very successful writer and cartoonist, jobs are being outsourced to the other side of  the planet, and I love my current job &#8212; but it is still a worthwhile read.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tedrall.com\/2006_07_01_archive.html#115240063536037014\">an obsessive blogger&#8217;s efforts at transcription<\/a>&#8220;, that work is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&#038;friendID=51569063&#038;blogID=142029131\">available online<\/a> for the first time. First, wow, I can&#8217;t believe some guy typed that all in by hand, and second, give it a read, it&#8217;s worth your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime readers of this website may recall that I am a fan of Ted Rall. In 1995, Ted published an article in a now defunct magazine titled &#8220;Quit Your Job, Work is a Sham&#8220;. I remember seeing photocopies of it posted in my workplace, and it really spoke to me, primarily because my job sucked. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-5t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}