{"id":1963,"date":"2011-06-01T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2011-06-02T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T17:05:02","slug":"differentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"differentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could come up with a way, even just on the side, to make money off my car repair interest.  I know it sounds like the answer is in the question (repair cars!), but the logistics are more complicated than they might initially appear:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My time in the evenings and on the weekends is limited.<\/li>\n<li>My collection of tools, while appreciable, isn&#8217;t perhaps complete enough to tackle <em>every<\/em> job.<\/li>\n<li>The liability issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honestly, from a purely <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rate_of_return\">ROI<\/a> potential perspective, web design would be the best possible thing I could do\u2014the hourly rate I could charge would probably be the highest, and all the software I need I either already have, or can acquire free on the Internet.  But&#8230;the act of it is like pulling teeth.  By contrast, I have and will undertake the most menial car repair task freely and willingly.  That&#8217;s where my motivation is.  And I just <em>understand<\/em> cars better than I do computers.  There&#8217;s a present limit to my web design knowledge, and it&#8217;s limit I could expand through additional instruction, but the principles that govern car operation are so completely ingrained in me that I could undertake almost any task, even on an unfamiliar car, and have some degree of certainty that I would emerge successful on the other side.  The difference in my confidence in approaching the two endeavors is significant.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about second jobs more lately, mainly because money&#8217;s been tight, and it&#8217;s nice to be self-reliant to even the small degree a second, self-generated job provides.  Also, I&#8217;ve gotten back into touch with Ben, a friend of David&#8217;s from high school who&#8217;s been through a number of classic British sports cars, made money off a few of them, and is currently borrowing my engine hoist.  I have crazy ideas of &#8220;joining forces&#8221; with him and others, like some giant car repair\/restoration Voltron, but that&#8217;s a pipe dream at best.  I can&#8217;t even begin to visualize how that would work out.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I do know:  Whatever I decide to do on the car repair front will have to wait until the garage is up to par, completely organized.  Fortunately, my motivation to do that is sky-high as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could come up with a way, even just on the side, to make money off my car repair interest. I know it sounds like the answer is in the question (repair cars!), but the logistics are more complicated than they might initially appear: My time in the evenings and on the weekends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}