{"id":3197,"date":"2020-08-24T01:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2020-08-14T10:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:20:52","slug":"beware-of-the-unbalanced-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/08\/beware-of-the-unbalanced-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of the Unbalanced Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Take great caution when you enter an endeavor with someone who has far more experience than you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are occasions in life when we enter a financial agreement in a terribly unbalanced relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One example: a parent dies. I am arranging the funeral, i.e., I am paying for it. I go to the funeral parlor. They arrange funerals several times a day and have been doing this for 20 years. I have never done it before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second example: I have written a book and want it published. This is a non-fiction technical book. The publisher publishes 20 books a year like mine and has done so for 50 years. This is my first book AND my first book-publishing contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yikes! I am in trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, today\u2014unlike the first time I arranged a funeral and the first time I signed a book-publishing contract\u2014we can go to the Internet and search &#8220;things to know the first time you&#8230;&#8221; That is a tremendous help. A TREMENDOUS help. Please do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regardless, be aware:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You are in an unbalanced relationship.<\/li><li>You are on the short-end of the experience scale.<\/li><li>The other party can easily take advantage of the unbalanced teeter totter.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Take great caution when you enter an endeavor with someone who has far more experience than you. There are occasions in life when we enter a financial agreement in a terribly unbalanced relationship. One example: a parent dies. I am arranging the funeral, i.e., I am paying for it. I go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,106],"tags":[438,220],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-context","category-knowledge","tag-context","tag-knowledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}