{"id":1204,"date":"2013-04-15T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2013-04-09T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:19:21","slug":"vmware-take-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/vmware-take-3\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Take 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of VMware&#8217;s benefits is the Take 3 program. \u00a0For those who have been with VMware for at least five years, they can take 3 months off to do something completely different from their usual job. \u00a0One option is to work on a different project or try out a different discipline. \u00a0Another option is to work with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/company\/foundation.html\">VMware Foundation<\/a> and spend 3 months working for a charitable organization.<\/p>\n<p>Deanna McCusker is a UX designer on my team who has been with VMware for 9 years. \u00a0She&#8217;s on her Take 3 project now, and she&#8217;s taking the latter option. \u00a0She is working for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openmf.org\">Community for Open Source Microfinance<\/a>\u00a0on an application called <a href=\"http:\/\/mifos.org\">Mifos<\/a>. \u00a0She&#8217;s also keeping a blog about her experience, and you can follow along <a href=\"http:\/\/t3deanna.wordpress.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already informed Deanna that she&#8217;s signed up to give a <a title=\"a retrospective of VMware user experience tech talks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/27\/a-retrospective-of-vmware-user-experience-tech-talks\/\">UX tech talk<\/a> when she&#8217;s completed this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of VMware&#8217;s benefits is the Take 3 program. \u00a0For those who have been with VMware for at least five years, they can take 3 months off to do something completely different from their usual job. \u00a0One option is to work on a different project or try out a different discipline. \u00a0Another option is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/vmware-take-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VMware Take 3<\/span> <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":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}