{"id":207,"date":"2026-02-11T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:24:43","slug":"life-is-needlessly-transactional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/11\/life-is-needlessly-transactional\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Needlessly Transactional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet here we are in the United States where everything and <em>everyone <\/em>is seen as a business transaction. I don\u2019t like it but I don\u2019t have the power to fight city hall. Instead, I\u2019m going to make decisions that best benefit myself and Denisse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My manager asked me to work a 10a-4p shift. I took a very powerful moment to decide carefully if this is what I <em>really <\/em>want and will it benefit <em>me<\/em>. I needed to make up money I lost yesterday due to the Uber debacle. A quick calculation with transit costs revealed that I would make up what I lost with a little extra so I agreed. I used to just agree to help out because I am, by nature, a people pleaser so this was a huge step in taking back my power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like being more careful in my decision making and I like considering the needs of me and my family first. Being a people pleaser caused me to be easily taken advantage of in corporate. People pleasing ate away at my mental health like acid chews through metals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I plan to give Uber another try on Monday. I\u2019ve got what I think is a solid plan but I\u2019m going to have all of my i\u2019s dotted and t\u2019s crossed. For now, I have 23.5 hours until my next security guard shift. The plan is to relax and spend quality time with my baby girl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet here we are in the United States where everything and everyone is seen as a business transaction. I don\u2019t like it but I don\u2019t have the power to fight city hall. Instead, I\u2019m going to make decisions that best benefit myself and Denisse. My manager asked me to work a 10a-4p shift. I took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}