{"id":53001,"date":"2018-08-07T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/07\/should-i-give-up-my-public-sector-career-and-teach-yoga-instead\/"},"modified":"2018-08-07T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:30:27","slug":"should-i-give-up-my-public-sector-career-and-teach-yoga-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=53001","title":{"rendered":"Should I give up my public sector career and teach yoga instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you got a work-related problem? In this series we invite you to send in a short description of your predicament \u2013 so that other readers can offer solutionsI am in my 20s with a good job in the public sector. I know my career should be purposeful and I want to help others, but since leaving university I have felt unenthused about work. I have had a few good roles and know I am in a privileged position, but I had always hoped I would love what I do. In my spare time I teach yoga and feel the complete opposite. I feel I am helping people and developing my skills each day. If it wasn\u2019t for my ego about being a yoga teacher with a useless master\u2019s degree, I would choose it in a heartbeat. Am I just looking for an escape from desk life without giving myself a chance to progress or should I try making a go of an alternative and creative future?\u2022 When leaving a message on this page, please be sensitive to the fact that you are responding to a real person in the grip of a real-life dilemma, who wrote to Working It Out asking for help, and may well view your comments here. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/aug\/07\/give-up-career-teach-yoga-public-sector\" target=\"_blank\">Should I give up my public sector career and teach yoga instead?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you got a work-related problem? In this series we invite you to send in a short description of your predicament \u2013 so that other readers can offer solutionsI am in my 20s with a good job in the public sector. I know my career should be purposeful and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}