When people ask you what you do...
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@wls-itguy said in When people ask you what you do...:
@scottalanmiller said in When people ask you what you do...:
@wls-itguy said in When people ask you what you do...:
@harry-lui said in When people ask you what you do...:
@irj said in When people ask you what you do...:
al quick....?
Sure, I charge $50 an hour.
That's the only way to make it stop.
I was doing freelance work for a while and I was charging $55/hour. I had a friend ask if he could get the buddy price. I said that was the buddy price, the EVERYBODY price.
That's way too low.
It was years ago. I don't have time for any of that now so if someone asks I say $150/hour. The tend to have a shocked look and then don't ask again.
I just say I dont do side work. I do that for friends or family because they will just keep using you as much as possible. Just too much bullshit, and they are never thankful.
They think the $100 they paid entitles them to unlimited support. Sure you can tell them otherwise and seem rude to them, but I have found it is better just to avoid family and close friends all together.
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@wls-itguy said in When people ask you what you do...:
@scottalanmiller said in When people ask you what you do...:
@wls-itguy said in When people ask you what you do...:
I can't describe how it changed. It just changed. Almost as if because I said "IT Guy" it was as if I had said I am entry level tech support. Maybe I'll go the route of Jack and just say I am in IT or IRJ and not say anything about my actual job.
I'll tell them all I am professional fisherman
I often tell people I'm an unemployed college drop out. My wife hates that.
At my wife's Christmas party a few years back I was tired of telling people I was in IT and actually told someone I clicked next. Mind you it was later in the evening after a few whiskey ginger ales but I thought it was funny anyway. Wife was also not happy
I often say I'm a writer and researcher. IT doesn't mean anything even to half of people who think that they are in IT.
