{"id":5639,"date":"2025-06-26T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2025-06-26T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:15:00","slug":"we-all-need-to-be-truly-valued-for-what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=5639","title":{"rendered":"We all need to be truly valued for what we do."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"e599d42b92530cddc130 d678c9ac111a6390ff29\">\n<ul>\n<li>My\u00a0dad died suddenly. The grief hit hard. I\u00a0messaged my\u00a0boss, politely requesting three days off. He\u00a0called me\u00a0impatient: \u201cThis is\u00a0a\u00a0critical project. Can\u2019t it\u00a0wait?\u201d That told me\u00a0everything\u00a0I needed to\u00a0know. I\u00a0said nothing, took the days off anyway, and traveled home to\u00a0bury my\u00a0father. While there, surrounded by\u00a0family and memories, I\u00a0realized I\u2019d lost more than a\u00a0parent\u2014<strong>I\u2019d lost myself in\u00a0a\u00a0job that never valued\u00a0me<\/strong>. I\u00a0returned to\u00a0the office, typed out my\u00a0resignation, and handed it\u00a0in\u00a0the next day. \u201cYou\u2019re leaving? Now?\u201d my\u00a0boss asked, astonished. I\u00a0nodded. He\u00a0was shocked when I\u00a0said, \u201cI\u2019m done postponing what matters.\u201d I\u00a0packed my\u00a0desk and walked away. A\u00a0month later, I\u00a0launched my\u00a0passion project: a\u00a0small digital platform for mental health resources, especially for those grieving. It\u2019s what\u00a0I needed\u2014and now\u00a0I can offer it\u00a0to\u00a0others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e599d42b92530cddc130 d678c9ac111a6390ff29\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My\u00a0dad died suddenly. The grief hit hard. I\u00a0messaged my\u00a0boss, politely requesting three days off. He\u00a0called me\u00a0impatient: \u201cThis is\u00a0a\u00a0critical project. Can\u2019t it\u00a0wait?\u201d That told me\u00a0everything\u00a0I needed to\u00a0know. I\u00a0said nothing, took the days off anyway, and traveled home to\u00a0bury my\u00a0father. While there, surrounded by\u00a0family and memories, I\u00a0realized I\u2019d lost more than a\u00a0parent\u2014I\u2019d lost myself in\u00a0a\u00a0job that never &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}