{"id":22303,"date":"2011-05-26T08:53:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12405"},"modified":"2016-09-17T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T11:11:33","slug":"piecemeal-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/piecemeal-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Piecemeal Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still haven&#8217;t had any hits on a full-time job and time is running out to make ends meet for June. I&#8217;m grabbing every little contract I can.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m spending about four hours counting cars for a traffic survey, from 7AM to 9AM and from 4PM to 6PM. The morning shift flew by! There was a lot of traffic so learning to use the counter device and coordinate my fingers kept my mind occupied. I hope to be more accurate this afternoon. The most important thing I learned is to not drink a giant coffee if you&#8217;re going to be sitting in a car for two hours. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I also have an extra day of flier delivery this week, so that will help the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;m having to do this month that I hate is be very aggressive with my accounts receivable. I did a contract for someone who has tons more work for me, but she is ignoring every email where I ask about being paid for the first batch. Needless to say, I don&#8217;t have time to waste with someone who has no intention of paying me!<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve been here almost eight weeks and haven&#8217;t had a nibble, not when I&#8217;ve been employed in much smaller markets in much less time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still haven&#8217;t had any hits on a full-time job and time is running out to make ends meet for June. I&#8217;m grabbing every little contract I can. Today, I&#8217;m spending about four hours counting cars for a traffic survey, from 7AM to 9AM and from 4PM to 6PM. The morning shift flew by! There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,1226,635,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}