{"id":70,"date":"2011-02-11T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-consultant"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:41:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T00:41:49","slug":"what-it-is-like-to-be-a-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/02\/what-it-is-like-to-be-a-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"What it is like to be a consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/globalvolunteering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3055\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/globalvolunteering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>A frequently-asked question to me is, &#8220;What is it like to be a consultant? How can I be one?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve offered what advice I can, like about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/work\/telecommute.shtml\" target=\"_self\">how to telecommute\/work from home<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/stuff\/workabroad.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">how to pursue a career in humanitarian activities<\/a>, but today, I&#8217;ll share a Friday funny that shows what it&#8217;s often like from a financial standpoint to be a consultant (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlingreport.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Cowling<\/a> for the heads up):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY?rel=0\">Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frequently-asked question to me is, &#8220;What is it like to be a consultant? How can I be one?&#8221; I&#8217;ve offered what advice I can, like about how to telecommute\/work from home and how to pursue a career in humanitarian activities, but today, I&#8217;ll share&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1355],"tags":[579,7,8,568,1686],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-advice","tag-career","tag-consultant","tag-consulting","tag-ethics","tag-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-18","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}