{"id":1907,"date":"2003-11-04T08:54:04","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T00:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/04\/so-close\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:26:31","slug":"so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/04\/so-close\/","title":{"rendered":"So close&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but not close enough. My temp agency and I spent the morning getting me set up with an assignment with a software company&#8217;s call center. Everything was looking good (including running me through some quick tests that verified my typing speed at 80 WPM, and a combination listening\/data entry test that I apparently scored around double the average score on), they handed me the address of the call center, and I headed back home to wait for the confirmation call.<\/p>\n<p>Once I got home, I hit the Seattle Metro <a href=\"http:\/\/tripplanner.metrokc.gov\/\" title=\"Seattle Metro Trip Planner\">Online Trip Planner<\/a> to figure out how to get to the call center &#8212; and realized that it was about a two-hour commute that involved a one mile walk. Wow. Much as I need to find another job, that&#8217;s a bit much, so I had to call back and let them know that, much to my chagrin, I had to turn down the assignment. Bummer.<\/p>\n<p>Back to square one&#8230;<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:5642,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tripplanner.metrokc.gov&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20091002072329\\\/http:\\\/\\\/tripplanner.metrokc.gov:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 11:39:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 02:05:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:13:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 14:51:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 04:34:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 22:21:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 22:21:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much as I need to find another job, that commute is a bit much, so I had to call back and let them know that, much to my chagrin, I had to turn down the assignment. Bummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}