{"id":403,"date":"2011-09-05T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinerw.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2011-09-05T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T17:07:13","slug":"no-conferences-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/2011\/09\/05\/no-conferences-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"no conferences this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"42%\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinerw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/plane.jpg\" alt=\"plane\" width=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size:xx-small;\"><em>On our way home from NYC 9\/2010<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>2011 is three quarters done and I have stuck to my pledge this year not to attend any conferences. In the past five years I have attended at least one architecture conference per year and several of the years I attended two. I love the networking and professional development. <\/p>\n<p>This year I decided to step back and take a break. I just did not want to do a travel for a long time to get to a large conference, to run around some big facility, trying to figure out another city. I have tried to still foster networking online and by phone email and in person with people here. I have been doing personal reflection and development especially after spending so much time the past few years focused on my career and completing the architecture licensing process.<\/p>\n<p>I was also motivated by my finances. In the past speaking at conferences was an opportunity to get complementary registration and sometimes travel costs covered. Most times, I travel with my daughter so I pay for two. This year I wanted to be with my family for Christmas. Traveling for conferences didn&#8217;t leave a lot left to get in an expensive cross-country holiday trip. For the past four years, we have been in California for Christmas with friends or just the two of us celebrating. I am looking forward to being surrounded by family this year. Of course, my daughter will wish for an east coast snow storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our way home from NYC 9\/2010 2011 is three quarters done and I have stuck to my pledge this year not to attend any conferences. In the past five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}