I've looked at the wiki... Interesting costing system Don, but hardly of much relevance to a student. It's of very little relevance to me either and I've been full time freelancer for 8 months. Because I'm not charging $70 an hour I spend 40 hours a week on billable work. It's been several months since I've had to seek work and I am full up until February at least.
If you are spending 20 hours a week seeking potential work then that is a sure sign you are charging too much. Because I work from home, petrol and rent are irrelevant. IRD wouldn't let me even if I tried to include rent as a business expense. At least half those items are totally irrelevant to freelancers and apply only to software houses. The normal market process is that freelancer starts off with a competitive rate because they have less overheads. If freelancer succeeds and gets reputation then freelancer becomes established business, employs staff and charges more on the basis of reputation/ brand. Don't want to spoil your fun but this costing is too much too soon for any newbie. On Nov 25, 3:15 pm, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hopefully, if students have any common sense, they will use the wiki to > > learn the correct conventions. > > Yeah! Inspiration to get writting! :) > > Cheers Don --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
