{"id":300,"date":"2022-06-23T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/23\/left-classroom-for-ledger\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T09:15:00","slug":"left-classroom-for-ledger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/23\/left-classroom-for-ledger\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Left the Classroom for a Ledger."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved my students. I loved summer and lesson plans and the kid who finally understood supply and demand. I did not love the district politics, the unpaid hours, or the feeling that I was running a banquet on a snack budget.<\/p>\n<p>Accounting offered rules I could learn, puzzles I could solve, and a paycheck that did not depend on whether teenagers remembered homework. I was good at it because teaching taught me to explain hard things simply\u2014a skill undervalued in every industry.<\/p>\n<p>I still teach, just differently. Now my classroom is a dinner table or a blog post. The subject rotates. The patience remains.<\/p>\n<p>Careers are not straight lines. They are tasting menus. Some courses you send back. Some you request again for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching shaped me. Accounting paid the mortgage. No regrets\u2014just chapters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}