{"id":213,"date":"2011-06-06T21:46:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T02:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-06-06T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T02:47:02","slug":"always-compute-your-hourly-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"always compute your hourly wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a business asks you to do something, compute your actual hourly before deciding if it&#8217;s worth it.  It&#8217;s amazing how many times a month I get asked to work for less than minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>Today, for example, I got a request to do a tech review in trade for a <i>copy of the book<\/i>.   Here&#8217;s my response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sorry, but I&#8217;m not interested in doing tech reviews for a copy of the book on a subject where I&#8217;m already an expert.  Back in the 90s I got paid decent bank per-section to do tech reviews, I see no reason to work for less than minimum wage at this point in my career.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a business asks you to do something, compute your actual hourly before deciding if it&#8217;s worth it. It&#8217;s amazing how many times a month I get asked to work for less than minimum wage. Today, for example, I got a request to do a tech review in trade for a copy of the book. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}