{"id":56,"date":"2004-08-14T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=56"},"modified":"2004-08-14T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T19:02:00","slug":"getting-out-of-the-credit-card-biz-full-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/14\/getting-out-of-the-credit-card-biz-full-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting out of the credit-card biz full-time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have decided not to stay in the credit card merchant services business on a full-time basis.  I just typed up a long post explaining why, but then realized I could sum it up in one sentence:  It isn&#8217;t fun for me anymore.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going to start hunting for a full-time job.  Will make a post shortly listing my qualifications and the types of positions I&#8217;m looking for, in case anyone reading this knows of anything.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not disappointed about this.  I tried something and it didn&#8217;t work.  That&#8217;s it.  In fact, the minute I made the decision to give up full-time self-employment, my mood improved considerably.  If anything, I&#8217;m considerably happier now than I was a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>All right &#8211; I&#8217;m off to enjoy a beautiful weekend and will post more soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I have decided not to stay in the credit card merchant services business on a full-time basis. I just typed up a long post explaining why, but then realized I could sum it up in one sentence: It isn&#8217;t fun for me anymore. So, I&#8217;m going to start hunting for a full-time job. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/14\/getting-out-of-the-credit-card-biz-full-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting out of the credit-card biz full-time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->