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Re: Why I send these out -- was Re: Here's another winner - guess the pay
Subject:Re: Why I send these out -- was Re: Here's another winner - guess the pay From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:11:55 -0800
And if you're a freelancer, remember to create that tiered rate table that
shows a higher rate for jobs where you're being brought in at the eleventh
hour to fix documents that someone else already tried and failed to create.
:)
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> On the flip side, let them hire someone at $10/hr. The unskilled will
> do a poor job, and the skilled will wake up and wonder why they're
> accepting such poor pay. Either way, there's a growing problem that
> will eventually come to a head. When it does, the top-rate contractors
> and consultants will have a field day.
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