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Old 09-22-2010, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Kuan View Post
Why do people expect to get paid $50/hr for their time but never seem willing to pay me $50/hr for mine?

dont worry, after they hire the $25/hr guy to do it for them they will pay you $85/hr to fix it later

when I was contracting I would handle it two ways, flat rate them or figure out what the rate they wanted to pay and set hours of effort accordingly.
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