{"id":232685,"date":"2016-07-20T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=232685"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:25:27","slug":"man-quits-graphic-designer-job-to-become-full-time-pokemon-go-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=232685","title":{"rendered":"Man quits graphic designer job to become full-time Pok\u00e9mon Go trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brave man made the bold decision to give up his job as a graphic designer – to become a full-time Pok\u00e9mon trainer.<\/p>\n

Syed Muktasid is hooked on the new Nintendo app – Pok\u00e9mon Go – and has decided to take his obsession one step further.<\/p>\n

He has caught more than 70 Pok\u00e9mon, including two rare characters – Aerodactyl and Magmar.<\/p>\n

Syed is now documenting his journey via Facebook and YouTube videos .<\/p>\n

He said: “I recently quit my job as a graphic designer, to explore and catch Pokemon using the popular Pokemon Go app.<\/p>\n

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Youtube\/Pokemon Trainer Syed<\/span>\"Syed<\/div>
Syed Muktasid has quit his job to become a Pok\u00e9mon trainer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“My aim is to catch every Pokemon and make interesting videos about my journey.<\/p>\n

“So far, I’ve got a small following on Facebook, with people really engaging with my videos.”<\/p>\n

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Syed admitted that his family and friends weren’t keen on the idea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Syed admits that his family aren’t quite on board with his big plan.<\/p>\n

“My friends, family and wife reluctantly approve for now, as they think that this journey will not last very long.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: Mirror UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brave man made the bold decision to give up his job as a graphic designer – to become a full-time Pok\u00e9mon trainer. Syed Muktasid is hooked on the new Nintendo app – Pok\u00e9mon Go – and has decided to take his obsession one step further. He has caught more than 70 Pok\u00e9mon, including two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":232690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}