{"id":109061,"date":"2026-07-12T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/inside-one-coders-journey-to-leave-tech-and-land-a-baby-blue-collar-job\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:27:33","slug":"inside-one-coders-journey-to-leave-tech-and-land-a-baby-blue-collar-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/inside-one-coders-journey-to-leave-tech-and-land-a-baby-blue-collar-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside one coder&#8217;s journey to leave tech and land a &#8216;baby blue-collar&#8217; job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Gordon fell in love with coding. Over a decade later, the industry wasn&#8217;t loving him back.<br \/>\nIn March, Gordon learned that his company would be shutting down, eliminating his frontend developer \u2026 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/web-developer-coding-career-pivot-baby-blue-collar-job-2026-7#article\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Gordon fell in love with coding. Over a decade later, the industry wasn&#8217;t loving him back. In March, Gordon learned that his company would be shutting down, eliminating his frontend developer \u2026 [read more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["1"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}