Two things on my Mind of Late:
1) How do people (esp emplyers) evaluate one's worth - I'm strickly talking about dollars per hour here. I heard a few weeks ago that one of my clients is disappointed with me and so I've been busting my ass, putting in 65 hour weeks to try to make the client happy. I've done some really really good work - some of my best ever, I think, and was feeling pretty good about where I thought things were at - I finally recieved a compliment from him on Friday, which means things are probably all right.
But what has me bothered is that he mentioned, over lunch, that my rate per hour is too high.
Which, in itself is fine. I'm willing to negotiate. I'm all about keeping clients happy. Repeat business is everything in this industry.
But then I started really thinking about it... and it occured to me that for the past 200+ hours of work I've done for him over the past few weeks, I was only going to bill him for maybe 40. I developed one application for free which left me open for troubling contractual obligation difficulties which I do not understand one bit. I was going to give him a second application for practically free... and somehow he thinks/insinuates that he thinks that he's paying me too much.
Writing things down always makes the absuridity clear. Rolls eyes.
The other thing on my mind is the general suckiness of most people. I don't expect much from people, I really don't feel that I do... but when it comes down to having plans and not getting a call until well after the time of said plans that the other cannot make it and is really sorry, I just have to wonder why they didn't call perhaps earlier. Kinda gets me down how people just do things like this. I don't have time for it. Really don't. But I'm still a sucker...
1) How do people (esp emplyers) evaluate one's worth - I'm strickly talking about dollars per hour here. I heard a few weeks ago that one of my clients is disappointed with me and so I've been busting my ass, putting in 65 hour weeks to try to make the client happy. I've done some really really good work - some of my best ever, I think, and was feeling pretty good about where I thought things were at - I finally recieved a compliment from him on Friday, which means things are probably all right.
But what has me bothered is that he mentioned, over lunch, that my rate per hour is too high.
Which, in itself is fine. I'm willing to negotiate. I'm all about keeping clients happy. Repeat business is everything in this industry.
But then I started really thinking about it... and it occured to me that for the past 200+ hours of work I've done for him over the past few weeks, I was only going to bill him for maybe 40. I developed one application for free which left me open for troubling contractual obligation difficulties which I do not understand one bit. I was going to give him a second application for practically free... and somehow he thinks/insinuates that he thinks that he's paying me too much.
Writing things down always makes the absuridity clear. Rolls eyes.
The other thing on my mind is the general suckiness of most people. I don't expect much from people, I really don't feel that I do... but when it comes down to having plans and not getting a call until well after the time of said plans that the other cannot make it and is really sorry, I just have to wonder why they didn't call perhaps earlier. Kinda gets me down how people just do things like this. I don't have time for it. Really don't. But I'm still a sucker...