So I’ve got my first job working on my own schedule. It’s for my wife’s sister, so I’m not sure if it really counts, but I’m getting paid for it. I had to buy some new tools for it, so that’s fun. They should be here in the next day or two. I should still be making about $300 on it even with that expense. I set up some invoice software to keep track of everything, which makes me feel pretty businessy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been in contact with a few other potential customers, which seem promising. I’m waiting for the weather to improve in the middle of the next week to see where things go. I haven’t had as much trouble getting responses to my ad as I expected. My goal is to bill 10 hours per week. I’m charging $60 per hour, so I’d be making $600 in labor. Profit on parts would probably work out to a similar level per week. If this takes off like I’m hoping, I should be in decent financial shape. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I’ve got my first job working on my own schedule. It’s for my wife’s sister, so I’m not sure if it really counts, but I’m getting paid for it. I had to buy some new tools for it, so that’s fun. They should be here in the next day or two. I should still … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}