{"id":30149,"date":"2019-09-03T19:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T00:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30149"},"modified":"2019-09-03T19:10:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T00:10:21","slug":"briefly-taking-a-big-risk-to-find-joy-in-his-career-led-to-more-money-not-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30149","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Taking a big risk to find joy in his career led to more money, not less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Leaving-the-fishbowl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30150\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Leaving-the-fishbowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Leaving-the-fishbowl.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Leaving-the-fishbowl-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott Mautz spent most of his working life in the corporate world. He made more and more money and his lifestyle got more and more expensive. By the time he realized he wanted more out of life, his ego was too invested in the idea of climbing financial and social ladders for him to walk away. He wanted to pursue speaking, writing, teaching and coaching, but he feared he would have to take a pay cut. His wife was completely willing to cut their lifestyle for him to pursue another direction, but he had trouble allowing himself to take the chance. Writing for Inc. magazine, Mautz tells about his decision to take the chance \u2014 and how that change has given him the joy he wanted from work and unexpectedly allowed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/scott-mautz\/after-30-years-i-chose-joy-over-money-in-my-work-then-something-unexpected-happened.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make more money than ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Mautz spent most of his working life in the corporate world. He made more and more money and his lifestyle got more and more expensive. By the time he realized he wanted more out of life, his ego was too invested in the idea of climbing financial and social ladders for him to walk <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30149\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7Qh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30151,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30149\/revisions\/30151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}