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Subject:Re: fees: charging for conceptual time From:"Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 19 Jul 1998 15:24:30 -0700
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> From: Rebecca Price[SMTP:beccap -at- RUST -dot- NET]
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> For contract gigs, how do you charge for time you spend thinking
> about how to approach a problem?
>
The same as for typing, doing screen dumps, creating line drawings,
talking to SMEs, waiting at the printer, attending meetings, or anything
else. It's all part of producing the product I was hired to produce.
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services
Federal Way, Washington USA
mailto: wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
(I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)
