>>>>Realizing you never have an income maximum limit - the sky is the limit, its all in your own hands. Someone has said the definition of a "job" is "just-over-broke" and I guess I don't want to live that way.
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>>>mmmmm...well I've always figured there was a maximum - unless you hire employees. There are only so many hours in the month.
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>>Who says you can't bill for more hours in a month than there are in a month? <bg>
>>Lets say you have to build a widget and you estimate that it will take 20 hours (yeah it is a big widget). Now you remember that you built a very very similar (maybe even the same) widget about 5 years ago. You spend 1 hours finding the widget and making modifications. How many hours do you bill for, 1 or 20? (or maybe 21? <bg>)
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>I would bill for 1.
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>The only way I would do otherwise was if I was actually selling a whole application or something. Now THAT would be nice - write something once and sell it a zillion times. Of course first you need the idea and the time to do it....

Victor,
Could you please ZIP up and email me all of your custom controls then? That shouldn't take you more than 5-10 minutes <bg> Or do you round your time to the nearest 30 minutes or whole hour? (reounding up can also give you more than 720 billable hours in a month if you do a lot of small widgets that take 10-15 minutes)

All joking aside I respect you for only billing 1 hour. I would probably charge 20 hours when I originally built it and then 10 hours every time I used it thereafter (after selling it 10 times I would drop the price down but would still keep some 'markup'). Anywho that is just me

Einar