{"id":1862,"date":"2013-02-18T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2013-02-18T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T13:13:09","slug":"annapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"annapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of 2008 I interviewed with a little outfit<sup>*<\/sup> in Annapolis to become their head of support. (This was just a month after interviewing with <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/06\/05\/why-im-not-moving-office-spaces\/#.URp3sqVlH00\">FogCreek<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough that day, one of my former colleagues at Opsware who had moved-on was my tech screener. Needless to say, that aspect of the interview I passed with flying colors \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>When all was said and done, however, I did not end up with the position. I was not happy their stated goal was to be bought out in 18 months. I had just ridden through a not amazing acquisition, and was looking forward to\u00a0working\u00a0for a company that wanted to grow at least mostly organically.<\/p>\n<p>In discussing places we might want to move someday recently, my wife and I mentioned a bunch of places we\u00a0<em>don&#8217;t<\/em> want to go &#8211; like Maryland and DC. Annapolis is right smack dab in the middle of that whole capital mess.<\/p>\n<p>Had I ended up with that job, I likely would not have met my wife &#8211; and that would just be No Good\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>While it didn&#8217;t look it at the time, that was certainly a for-the-best moment for me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>* <sub>a company I now have some major philosophical differences with &#8211; yet another reason I&#8217;m happy i didn&#8217;t go<\/sub><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of 2008 I interviewed with a little outfit* in Annapolis to become their head of support. (This was just a month after interviewing with FogCreek.) Oddly enough that day, one of my former colleagues at Opsware who had moved-on was my tech screener. Needless to say, that aspect of the interview I &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1862\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">annapolis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,35,48],"tags":[162,336],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-ramble","category-work","tag-career","tag-forthebest"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}