{"id":2638,"date":"2009-09-27T23:34:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2009-10-12T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T05:32:08","slug":"question-from-tv-shows-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2638","title":{"rendered":"Question from TV Shows #3:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the pilot episode of <i>The Good Wife<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Would I be ok with starting from the very bottom if I was as old as the partners of the company?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There often comes this power of being the youngest at a company or at a position.  The youth speaks volumes: <i>Even though I am inexperienced, I bring much wealth of knowledge to you&#8230;and you know that I will be more experienced than you when I retire.<\/i>  Do the older people shake with fear that someone younger can upstage them?<\/p>\n<p>Could I?  Whenever the thought that I chose the wrong field crosses my mind, I know that switching to another field means starting at the bottom.  And yet, so what?  With the supposed experience, any age can power through the bottom rungs of a ladder.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but admit that I am sometimes jealous of the kids that skipped a grade in middle school or high school.  And they say how they started college at the tender age of 16.  From my perspective now, I consider those naive years of struggling on the playground and in meaningless class&#8230;to be a complete waste.  Or was it?  Or perhaps they laid the groundwork for the way I went about in college and graduate school?<\/p>\n<p>When I was 11, I was the oldest in my Saturday Chinese class&#8230;of 6 and 5 year olds.  My sister\u00e2\u20ac\u201da year younger\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwouldn&#8217;t mentor the kids.  Admittingly, we felt inferior to the fact that these younger kids were sometimes better than us.  But if I had swallowed away that inferiority, would things be different and could I excel faster?<\/p>\n<p>Also, an additional question, <i>will The Good Wife be canceled soon?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the pilot episode of The Good Wife: Would I be ok with starting from the very bottom if I was as old as the partners of the company? There often comes this power of being the youngest at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2638\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}