{"id":1247,"date":"2022-01-02T02:33:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T02:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2022-01-02T02:40:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T02:40:24","slug":"the-next-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"The Next Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is the first day of the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-01-morning-walk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-01-morning-walk.jpg 612w, https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022-01-01-morning-walk-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><figcaption>Following a snowy path<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This, as always, is true. It\u2019s also the first day of a new year and the first day of my retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So on this, the first day of the first year of my retirement, I feel led to wonder what is ahead me in the coming weeks, months and years. It will certainly be different from the last few years. I will no longer be going into the office and chatting with my coworkers as we tackle the various problems we have to solve. A part of me will miss that interaction, the stimulation of tossing ideas back and forth to come up with something better and the camaraderie of working together toward a common goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll need to find something to replace that stimulation, perhaps an online community. I\u2019ll need to come up with my own projects and goals to replace those provided by my employer. I suspect that coming up with ideas won\u2019t be hard. What will be harder is to set the proper goals and keep myself on track without the external stimulus that my employer provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While walking the dog this morning, I was thinking about this as we walked along the path. We don\u2019t always know what\u2019s around the next curve but it\u2019s likely to be an adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of the rest of my life. This, as always, is true. It\u2019s also the first day of a new year and the first day of my retirement. So on this, the first day of the first year of my retirement, I feel led to wonder what is ahead me in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/?p=1247\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Next Curve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}