{"id":236,"date":"2009-12-02T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2009\/12\/one-month-of-flying\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T11:52:00","slug":"one-month-of-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2009\/12\/one-month-of-flying\/","title":{"rendered":">One month of flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>It has been a month since I started working in my own business. My former employer has been very kind and let me explore this while on a leave of absense, i.e. I have somewhere to return to.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This Monday I sent my first large invoice to my biggest customer. Now, time to wait for the next pay. What have I learned this far?<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Bookkeeping &#8211; there are a lot of receipts to handle, especially when starting. Insurances, web servers, car insurance, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Working from home &#8211; it works fairly well for me. I&#8217;ve come up with a scheme to keep myself motivated and actually working. However, a simple business lunch now takes three hours instead of one.<\/li>\n<li>Money takes time &#8211; I&#8217;ve been given offers, signing deals, working more than ever, and my next pay check is still not due until mid January. Worth thinking about.<\/li>\n<li>Time is not money &#8211; at least not yet. By being self employed I&#8217;m so much more flexible so that I get more quality time with my family, while making the money that I need (and some extra, but I guess that is for future expenses).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, one month done, many more to come. This far, I&#8217;m looking forward to work every day.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>It has been a month since I started working in my own business. My former employer has been very kind and let me explore this while on a leave of absense, i.e. I have somewhere to return to. This Monday I sent my first large invoice to my biggest customer. Now, time to wait for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2009\/12\/one-month-of-flying\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">>One month of flying<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}