{"id":98,"date":"2004-07-01T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T00:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2004-07-01T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T00:46:30","slug":"trial-and-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/trial-and-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial and error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I wrote in and cancelled the contract today for the telephone tech support job I have been (theoretically) working for the past two weeks. In that time, I have spent 56 hours on the phone, but was only able to bill for less than 5 hours. As I said before, I would need to be averaging that amount of time <em>daily<\/em> before it would be worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this isn&#8217;t the fault of the company I was working for or a lack of skill on my part &#8211; there simply weren&#8217;t enough inbound calls. There were times every day where the phone simply didn&#8217;t ring for over an hour. (And that call was likely to be a hang-up or other no-bill.)<\/p>\n<p>So, back to pimping my own business and looking for a regular 9-5 job.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I wrote in and cancelled the contract today for the telephone tech support job I have been (theoretically) working for the past two weeks. In that time, I have <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/trial-and-error\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}