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Re: Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed?

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Post by ptcampbell »

sdegutis wrote: post #114
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? Could you explain with more detail what you mean?

The more you trust in God, the more he will make it clear that your victory is caused by him, and remove all possibility for the explanation that it's just a coincidence, or that you're doing it on your own. When Gideon went up with 30,000 soliders against the Midianite army who had 65,000, God didn't want any of them thinking they would win because of their own skill or strength. So he had Gideon tell the cowards to…

Crikey. If you say so.

Re: Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed?

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Post by danbmil99 »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #73
danbmil99 wrote: post #49

This subject probably requires it's own HN post but let me just put this here since it's on my mind. There is a hierarchy of ways that you can provide value to a client. I call it the TKPV ladder. Each letter represents what you provide in return for compensation. T stands for time. At this level, your client pays you by the hour, day, week, or even minute. Your value is measured by the time you put in. This is the l…

That's a really interesting insight thank you. I am just putting some thoughts together for what we ought to be doing for the big Enterprise SEO client we mostly work for. I hope you wont mind if I borrow this

Please borrow it. In fact, steal it.

Re: Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed?

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

sdegutis wrote: post #114
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? Could you explain with more detail what you mean?

The more you trust in God, the more he will make it clear that your victory is caused by him, and remove all possibility for the explanation that it's just a coincidence, or that you're doing it on your own. When Gideon went up with 30,000 soliders against the Midianite army who had 65,000, God didn't want any of them thinking they would win because of their own skill or strength. So he had Gideon tell the cowards to…

Got you, thanks.

>there was a 82 x 10^120 chance that anyone could fulfill them all //

That's a very specific figure, I'm curious where it comes from, or is it just a hyperbolic way of saying "infinitesimal"?

Back to your original:

>In that case, it would be a virtue.

I think that it can be virtuous to trust when one is in the direst situation to the providence of God (or maybe the providence of those God inspires?) but once one has their daily needs I don't think God intends for us to dispense with basic economies and - for example - not pay in to a pension, or save for the future.

Re: Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed?

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Post by sdegutis »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #123
sdegutis wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The more you trust in God, the more he will make it clear that your victory is caused by him, and remove all possibility for the explanation that it's just a coincidence, or that you're doing it on your own. When Gideon went up with 30,000 soliders against the Midianite army who had 65,000, God didn't want any of them thinking they would win because of their own skill or strength. So he had Gideon tell the cowards to…

Got you, thanks. >there was a 82 x 10^120 chance that anyone could fulfill them all // That's a very specific figure, I'm curious where it comes from, or is it just a hyperbolic way of saying "infinitesimal"? Back to your original: >In that case, it would be a virtue. I think that it can be virtuous to trust when one is in the direst situation to the providence of God (or maybe the providence of those God inspires?)…

> That's a very specific figure, I'm curious where it comes from

I think it might have been from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQObnw9A6A8&list=PLHr17i6CU5... but either way, it comes from the number of prophesies and then some statistical math.

> I think that it can be virtuous to trust when one is in the direst situation to the providence of God (or maybe the providence of those God inspires?) but once one has their daily needs I don't think God intends for us to dispense with basic economies and - for example - not pay in to a pension, or save for the future.

God wants people to give back to him according to their faith.

"The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work." (2 Corinthians 9 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+9...)

To those who want to go beyond regular virtue, Jesus says: "If you would be perfect, go and sell all that you have, give to the poor, and come, follow me." (Luke 18:18-22 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+18%3A18-22...)

It all depends on a person's faith. The more trust they have in God, the more God is pleased, and God refuses to let anyone down who trusts in him, so he provides everything they need in life. People like St. Francis of Assisi and St. Benedict gave up all material possessions and trusted solely in God's Divine Providence, and God not only provided for their daily needs, but also testified to their love for him by granting many miracles to them (which were never selfishly asked, but always for the sake of helping neighbor).

Here's a story about God's Divine Providence to St. Benedict: https://archive.org/details/DialoguesGregoryTheGreatPopeSt.5...

Similarly, St. Anthony of Egypt (one of my favorite saints ever), who gave away everything taking Jesus's words literally, it's an amazing story and relatively short: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm

For me, God would not be pleased for me to abandon my way of life and sell all that I have and give to the poor, because I'm the sole provider for a wife and 6 children. But these were single men who were not responsible for anyone, so they made themselves responsible for everyone, praying and doing penance for the sake of all those who won't pray and do penance for themselves. They sold all their worldly goods and purchased spiritual goods, they bought the spiritual field for the sake of the spiritual pearl buried in the midst of it.

Re: Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed?

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Post by Markoff »

tartoran wrote: post #116
Markoff wrote: post #59

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that's rational approach except I am not paid per hour, but per job, not that it would change things much, it all comes down to that if I know there are money to earn I don't value my spare time at as much as I earn, especially considering that this won't last longterm and when it's gone I will have plenty of time doing nothing (read working as regular employee for peanuts) with no option to earn that much in regular…

Automate your job and where you can’t, just delegate work remotely to workers in other countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine (you can find cheaper good quality labor in this countries). Remove all the references so you don’t get undercut and forward all the finished work as if you did it yourself. You’d still have to “approve” the work but that’d take way much less of yout time.

my job requires knowledge of local language/market, so I can use only people from my home country
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