{"id":1651,"date":"2009-07-30T10:35:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2009-07-30T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T20:36:15","slug":"business-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/business-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Business woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get jokes sometimes from relatives and friends, &#8220;<em>You make too much money Raph<\/em>&#8220;. While I think in some small part that&#8217;s a compliment to the appearance of success in my business, I can&#8217;t help but reflect upon my situation and see how much that&#8217;s really true?<\/p>\n<p>I put SO much money back into my business.\u00a0 I think I put about 25% of time and money into advertising, another 30% chunk gets &#8220;donated&#8221; to Uncle Sam, a good portion goes into operations (i.e., computer upgrades, software, office supplies, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s left is just enough to pay off mortgage and send Kingston to the babysitter. If I really think about it in one way, running my own business I might end up making LESS than I would working for someone else with a salary. It&#8217;s easy to get depressed when you think about it&#8230;.but then you tell yourself, &#8220;<em>Hey, I&#8217;m sitting in the comfort of my own home and at any time I can step out and lie on the beach<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then things are a little rosier again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get jokes sometimes from relatives and friends, &#8220;You make too much money Raph&#8220;. While I think in some small part that&#8217;s a compliment to the appearance of success in my business, I can&#8217;t help but reflect upon my situation and see how much that&#8217;s really true? I put SO much money back into my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[196,18],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal","tag-money","tag-my-business-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}