{"id":2044,"date":"2005-12-25T09:23:01","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T09:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2005-12-25T09:23:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-25T09:23:01","slug":"the_lives_we_li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"The Lives We Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing planes at O&#8217;hare recently, I stood next to an early 20&#8217;s woman trying to fly standby to Dayton, Ohio.   I discovered that she structured work to support her travel wants.<\/p>\n<p>My fellow traveller said that she joined the Air Force out of High School to &#8220;see the world&#8221;.   The Air Force promptly sent her to Dayton, Ohio for the length of her tour.  Now in the AF reserves, she works part time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.united.com\/page\/article\/0,6722,1383,00.html\">United Airlines<\/a> loading bags at the Dayton Airport and for the local <a href=\"http:\/\/marriott.com\/careers\/default.mi\">Marriott<\/a> hotel (also part time). These jobs provide incredible travel benefits &#8211; unless one cannot obtain a timely seat.<\/p>\n<p>The recent fruits of her work?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 Days skiing in Switzerland while staying at a local Marriott.\n<li>A few days on Oahu, again at a Marriott\n<li>Hong Kong, checking out that city&#8217;s Marriott<\/ul>\n<p>  I assume these benefits make up for the cold nights loading bags on to 737&#8217;s at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytonairport.com\/home_noflash.htm\">DAY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>Barry Ritholtz says <a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/comments\/2005\/12\/stuff_doesnt_ma.html\">stuff doesn&#8217;t make us happy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing planes at O&#8217;hare recently, I stood next to an early 20&#8217;s woman trying to fly standby to Dayton, Ohio. I discovered that she structured work to support her travel wants. My fellow traveller said that she joined the Air Force out of High School to &#8220;see the world&#8221;. The Air Force promptly sent her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}