{"id":3730,"date":"2009-03-07T12:04:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:09:24","slug":"one-mans-quest-to-get-a-new-job-after-the-pink-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3730","title":{"rendered":"One man&#8217;s quest to get a new job after the pink slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty good feature today in the Daily News <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2009\/03\/07\/2009-03-07_worried_sick_about_finding_work_listen_t.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Worried sick about finding work? Listen to axed worker Darrell DeMakes&#39;s inspirational tale<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>Three months ago, DeMakes was axed from his operations manager job at the A&amp;E television network. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was drawn out, shocking and painful,&quot; DeMakes, 44, a father of two girls from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Greenwich+(Connecticut)\" title=\"Greenwich (Connecticut)\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Greenwich, Conn.<\/font><\/a>, said. &quot;It was one of the lowest points in my life.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>DeMakes decided he would do everything he could to avoid staying out of work. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty good feature today in the Daily News Worried sick about finding work? Listen to axed worker Darrell DeMakes&#39;s inspirational tale Three months ago, DeMakes was axed from his operations manager job at the A&amp;E television network. &quot;It was drawn out, shocking and painful,&quot; DeMakes, 44, a father of two girls from Greenwich, Conn., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}