{"id":60,"date":"2004-01-30T04:51:22","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T19:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/30\/dream-job\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T13:03:23","slug":"dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/30\/dream-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p\/>When I was a kid and people asked me what I wanted to do later in life. My definite answer &#8211; that is, before I figured how fun it was to tell grown-ups that I&#8217;d love to become an international drug dealer, hit-man or dictator in a small African country&#8230; my answer used to be that I&#8217;d love to become an official Lego set designer (<i>Master Builders<\/i> it seems they are called). <\/p>\n<p\/>Whatever the hell that meant: maybe the guy who designs new models to be displayed on lego boxes in supermarket every year and make these ubiquitous construction booklet that go with each box&#8230; or the one who decides whether to introduce glowing red bricks or black sliding bricks in next season&#8217;s Lego collection&#8230;<\/p>\n<p\/>Yea, that sounded like a job I could handle.<\/p>\n<p\/>Anyway, even my innocent and stupid young self could barely believe there were actual people <i>paid<\/i> to design and\/or build Lego stuff, somewhere in an imaginary world where swimming pools come filled with lego bricks and you just need to fill a form to receive three hundred new 3 by 1 yellow bricks the next day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p\/>Well&#8230; apparently, such a job <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,62047,00.html\"><i>does<\/i> exists&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lego Builder. Every kids&#8217; wet dream job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}