{"id":109,"date":"2015-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/the-end-of-an-era"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:51:44","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/10\/the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my last day working for <a href=\"\/www.libertytax.com\">Liberty Tax Service<\/a>. Liberty took a chance on me when I was fresh out of the Navy with no experience as a DBA and has been there every step of the way as I grew. My co-workers are the living embodiment of their mission statement to, \u201cset the standard, improve each day, and HAVE FUN!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Too many people had a life long impact on me to list but I want to throw a special shout out to Dan Smith and Jeff Sharp for being the two best leaders that I have had the pleasure of working with. I love Liberty which makes my move to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascensionhealth.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=285&#038;Itemid=233\">Ascension\u00a0Information Services<\/a> a bitter \/ sweet\u00a0choice. I will miss everyone that I\u2019m leaving behind while, simultaneously, being extremely excited about this next era in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Liberty for everything you\u2019ve done for me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Video by Chris Brobst but I could not agree more with the message that he puts out there.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my last day working for Liberty Tax Service. Liberty took a chance on me when I was fresh out of the Navy with no experience as a DBA and has been there every step of the way as I grew. My co-workers are the living embodiment of their mission statement to, \u201cset the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","category-career","category-community","category-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}