{"id":10385,"date":"2026-06-29T00:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10385"},"modified":"2026-06-29T01:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:12:06","slug":"take-this-job-and-shove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/06\/29\/take-this-job-and-shove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Take This Job And Shove It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The latest two chunks of this my life. A moon-pointing finger toward the next chunk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a little more than eleven years, I worked to transform myself into the professor. <\/p>\n<p>Then, with a bit of overlap in 2015\/16, I spent the next eleven becoming the writer. <\/p>\n<p>The transition between the two came with a whole assload of Karma landing on me all at once. <\/p>\n<p>This right here, at the end o&#8217;June 26, is the next transition, the dawning of the next chunk trying to look at itself with its own eyes. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I ever stopped, or will stop, being the prof. <\/p>\n<p>But I did stop going in to work at it somewhere else every day. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same now with this project. I&#8217;m a writer. In a sense &#8230; tat tvam asi. <\/p>\n<p>Whether, or not, I continue to show up every day and spill or spit up words. <\/p>\n<p>As a job, though, I&#8217;m saying what I said up top. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OYQIrz-1LSo\">Shove it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I quit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest two chunks of this my life. A moon-pointing finger toward the next chunk. For a little more than eleven years, I worked to transform myself into the professor. Then, with a bit of overlap in 2015\/16, I spent the next eleven becoming the writer. The transition between the two came with a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10386,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10385\/revisions\/10386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}