{"id":35455,"date":"2026-07-10T08:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35455"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:39:19","slug":"seems-legit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/10\/seems-legit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seems Legit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting looking job on LinkedIn; self-hosted application, though, is non-descript and does not mention the job title or function.  And step two is:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/stash.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sign up for a paid monthly subscription and put some money, as little as $5, in it?<\/p>\n<p>Erm, no.  NO harder than job applications with subsidiary third-party applications of unknown provenance to determine whether the employer would get a tax credit for hiring me, applications which require my social security number right out of the gate.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I &#8220;meet&#8221; a lot of my clients just via the Internet, and I always have some trepidation before I receive my first payment.  But <em>making<\/em> a payment to apply?  Yeah, no.  I still avoid, for the most part, submission fees and entrance fees for writing submissions (which puts me out of the running for a lot of target outlets).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting looking job on LinkedIn; self-hosted application, though, is non-descript and does not mention the job title or function. And step two is: Sign up for a paid monthly subscription and put some money, as little as $5, in it? Erm, no. NO harder than job applications with subsidiary third-party applications of unknown provenance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35456,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions\/35456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}