{"id":1086,"date":"2008-10-24T16:48:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2008-10-24T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:48:02","slug":"busy-week,-honest-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Busy Week, Honest Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nToo many clients these couple of weeks is affecting my schedules.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEventhough a lot of my hours are based on loose estimates, in all fairness, I have maintained a principle: always charging for no more than less hours:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf I'm late, I will charge less. If I feel I could have done certain tasks in lesser hours than had actually taken me, I would charge according to the right hours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome are very generous, I am careful not to take advantage of them. The temptation has crossed my mind a few times, but I must maintain my principle. Even if they are not aware of my schedules. For it is a matter between me and God.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Luke 16:9, Jesus said &quot;make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness&quot;, He does not mean for us to be dishonest even if it doesn't seem harmful to anyone, but that we use the money in our hand in a way that it is just money, not something we view highly of, thus the term &quot;mammon of unrighteousness&quot;, and that we are to use it faithfully and wisely before our God, even in the smallest tasks or the least amount.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMany have said, money can't buy everything. But I would say: Money can't buy anything.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, if anyone asks me of my salary, I need not refuse to answer, for I can either give them the right number or simply answer: No more than I deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many clients these couple of weeks is affecting my schedules. Eventhough a lot of my hours are based on loose estimates, in all fairness, I have maintained a principle: always charging for no more than less hours: If I'm &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1086\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}