{"id":314,"date":"2023-11-24T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/24\/spreadsheets-made-me-feel-seen\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:45:00","slug":"spreadsheets-made-me-feel-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/24\/spreadsheets-made-me-feel-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets Made Me Feel Seen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People assume I miss the drama of real estate or the spark of teaching. Sometimes I miss both. But accounting gave me something sacred: reconciled accounts. When debits equal credits I feel a peace that church only partially provides.<\/p>\n<p>I built models with color codes that would make your eyes water. I explained tax documents to small business owners who thought they were bad at math. They were not bad at math. They were scared. I get scared too.<\/p>\n<p>That precision feeds my analysis studies now. The same muscle, harder weight. I train like an athlete who discovered the sport late and refuses to quit.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a skill the world calls dull, keep it. Dull skills feed people and pay for good olive oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accounting was not glamorous. It was honest\u2014and that suited me.<\/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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-chapters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}