[TheForge] Prices

[Andrew Vida]

GRAF wrote:
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> Andrew Vida wrote:
>>     This is a really important point IMO.  One has to know when a job 
>> is simply not worth doing.
> Andy, I have several thousands of dollars of income from GOOD jobs that 
> were generated by thankless, miserable little jobs.
> The trick is not doing the miserable ones while leaving the good ones sit.
> I just tell the pesky jobs owners that they can pay me $100 an hour if 
> they need it right now, or $50 an hour if I can do it as I see fit. 
> Either way I win.

	Methinks you missed my point: those not worth doing are the ones that 
cost you more than you make.  That is to say, the net present value is 
less than zero.

> That depends for me whether or not it is a "tuition piece".

	I am not at all sure I would buy into this idea.  Work is work.

> Spending two days learning to do something is little different than 
> going to a school and dropping $1500 with travel, meals, class charges, 
> other than  with the tuition piece I get to sleep with my wife at days end.

	This is a backhanded way of say that you subsidize your customers to 
some extent.  If that extent is small (subjective term) then if it's OK 
with you, it sure is by me.  But small in my world better be SMALL.