Uchujin FilmsAn important reminder for all of us freelancers:
GillianA@uchujinfilms This!
manuelcaeiro ☕@uchujinfilms
I have a question for you. How long would it take you to do your job if you spent 15 years learning how to do it? 😉
I have a question for you. How long would it take you to do your job if you spent 15 years learning how to do it? 😉
@manuelcaeiro tell you what, you tell me what your budget is and I'll see if I can make it work for that price :)
@uchujinfilms
With math or without?
With math or without?
@uchujinfilms
Math is very useful and not only for money calculations, did you know? 😀
Math is very useful and not only for money calculations, did you know? 😀
VallinSFAS
Pavel Machek@uchujinfilms You are free to sell those 10 years again. So... not really accurate.
Guido Gallenkamp@uchujinfilms So 60 minutes have the same price? 🤪
counternotions@uchujinfilms @theory Alt take: A competent freelancer wouldn’t promise to do a job in 30 mins when the general expectation of completion of the same is many times longer.
Agent Joséphine Bakerso good for artists on stage and all creatives
Bugspriet@uchujinfilms If companies develop new items, the development costs are charged on the price of the product.
ChristopherGeorgeQuickAnd always offer to watch them try if they get huffy about it and insist that it can’t be that hard.
Not sure how well that translates to all professions, but I work in plumbing and after letting people basically tell me I’m dumb, watching them struggle and fail is time well spent
Scissors Cut Paper...I am a #contractor and my staffing agency has me on a salary. My awesome manager is dealing with two weeks of #SpringBreak kiddo-at-home, so when I pinged her this morning that I would be in late, she reminded me that hours don't matter, work does.
Which is especially good as I feel like crrrap and I'm glad I set myself up to coast.
Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦@uchujinfilms The problem is there is a fine line to walk when deciding what the years of experience are worth. We're often terrible at seeing the value and establishing the price.
DFYX@uchujinfilms And for the non-freelancers: if I do a job in 30 minutes, my manager should not expect me to stay in the office for the full 8 hours just because that's how long some colleagues would need. Give us incentives to be quick. Fixed work times just invoke Parkinson's law.
KaraOhki@uchujinfilms My freelancing is making and selling jewelry. I no longer do craft shows because of this: customer picks up a necklace, which is marked $25.00.
“I’ll give you a dollar.”
After I politely show them that the label describes the materials (semiprecious stones, etc.) they again offer $1.00.
What if I had told them that added to price is the time spent designing the piece and making it? My time is worth the 15 years of doing this. Now I sell online.
LR@uchujinfilms maybe don't do it in 30 minutes then ;-)
Nobody ¯\_(ツ)_/¯™️
TECH SAVIOURS .ORG@uchujinfilms
Don't show that any tradies. Or your next house end up to 500M instead of 500k.
Don't show that any tradies. Or your next house end up to 500M instead of 500k.
Tagesbefehl
synlogic@uchujinfilms reminds me of one of the wise rules I've learned about contract/freelance work: do NOT charge/quote by the hour. by the month or week is better (at worst, by the day.) cuz it filters more for premium clients rather than cheapskates. and shifts emphasis more to results and not on means
ShantiS@uchujinfilms You need to figure out your rate so you can earn as much as you would if you worked a regular, full-time job that considers your years of experience and offers you a decent pay (plus whatever benefits)
da0@uchujinfilms Picasso's napkin
The Fresh Start of Bel AireI recall a story about the great cartoonist Sergio Aragonés saying something similar when someone objected to the price tag on what they thought of as a quick sketch.
Kevin Karhan 
@uchujinfilms EXACTLY THAT!
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦@uchujinfilms This is not just important for freelancers. It applies to any vocation where the subject matter is deep and specialized. E.g. sysadmins, auto mechanics, literary agents, carpenters, whatever. Experts can make their work seem so easy (to non-experts) that others devalue it, not seeing that the ease comes from a lot of past effort.