{"id":333,"date":"2007-03-26T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/like_the_apprentice_system_but_no_mentoring_or_foo"},"modified":"2013-11-18T00:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:44:16","slug":"like_the_apprentice_system_but_no_mentoring_or_foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2007\/03\/like_the_apprentice_system_but_no_mentoring_or_foo.html","title":{"rendered":"Like the Apprentice System, But No Mentoring. Or Food."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nickwolven.com\/WordPress\/?p=96\">Should first-time novelists be paid?<\/a> (hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/sailormur.livejournal.com\/\">Mur Lafferty<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Wow, I&#8217;m glad my first manager didn&#8217;t have this perspective. &#8220;Congratulations, you&#8217;re hired! Of course, we have little reason to expect big returns on your first job. And hiring someone like you, from an economic perspective, is hardly worth our time. As the party who puts money into the costs of training, a cubicle, a computer, heating and lighting, and a FrameMaker license, we&#8217;re the ones who stand to lose the most. Therefore, we&#8217;ll start you out at a salary of $0 with no benefits. If things go really well, after twelve months we might revisit your contract. How does that sound, kid?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who out there has such poor self-esteem and business sense that they would buy this argument?<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t say &#8220;graduate students&#8221;, that&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who out there has such poor self-esteem and business sense that they would buy this argument?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}