>>>>>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....
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>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)
I can do this but I charge 20 cents per K for file transfers....hahaha..(just kidding).
>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.
I'm pretty fair when it comes to my billing - and I know it costs me each month too. If I spend 3 hours trying to figure out something that *should* of only taken me 15 minutes - then the 15 minutes is what they're getting billed for. Obviously debugging and troubleshooting don't really apply to such a thing, but if I'm trying to add a combobox to a screen and spend 2 hours doing something stupid - I'm not going to make my client suffer for that. A couple of my clients have a general understanding of VFP and realize the breaks they get on my billing.
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