{"id":19,"date":"2018-01-29T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/your-career-starts-here\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T14:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:56:42","slug":"your-career-starts-here-mason-ramon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/your-career-starts-here-mason-ramon\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Career Starts Here: Mason Ramon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Bold';\">Mason Ramon, RT(R)(CT)(ARRT)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Bold';\">Radiologic Technologist<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Before I joined the Radiology program at NCTC, I felt like I had no direction. I got little to no satisfaction working a dead end job and living paycheck to paycheck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Now three years into my career in radiology, I work in the Computed Tomography (CT) Department at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. I am able to provide for my growing family, and I can think in real terms about fulfilling my other dreams like becoming a Physician\u2019s Assistant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">The radiology program was tough, but staying focused, studying and jumping on top of anything thrown at you, no matter how scary it may seem, will pay off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mason Ramon, RT(R)(CT)(ARRT) Radiologic Technologist Before I joined the Radiology program at NCTC, I felt like I had no direction. I got little to no satisfaction working a dead end job and living paycheck to paycheck. Now three years into my career in radiology, I work in the Computed Tomography (CT) Department at Texas Health&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/your-career-starts-here-mason-ramon\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-story","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nctc.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}