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That depends though, if you are in school and your alternate job is flipping burgers for around the same pay it is more attractive. Sure you could get more but
by robryan 16y ago
That depends though, if you are in school and your alternate job is flipping burgers for around the same pay it is more attractive. Sure you could get more but there is a lot more in running proper professional freelancing, if your learning along the way and your client knows that life/ school will get in the way frequently it's a decent deal.
Of course one you get to the stage of having a business with all the proper overheads and spending fixed hours with good programming knowledge it becomes next to nothing pay.
- msbarnett 16y agoEh, even as a student, when your price range is putting you on par with lawn-mowing services, you're going to run into a lot of time-wasters and fools who think you ought to do it for a six-pack and the opportunity to wash their car. Hence the aforementioned "guy who wants a custom web application and thinks $1500 isn't a steal of a deal". Raising your rates will winnow out the chaff and get you doing more serious projects that will look better on your resume.
- robryan 16y agoIt could, it could also hit you with people who expect you to drop everything, even if exams are on or assignments are due. Not saying this doesn't happen on the low end to but you can at least say to decent people that your lowering the rates to have more flexibility. I come across a guy with the same sort of attitude when I first started, occasionally hit up hes website to see if it ever went anywhere after I realized the work was dead end, it didn't.