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Outsourcing is something I need to get better at. For some reason I never feel at ease giving away control of my projects, which is why I often end up spending
by sgdesign 14y ago
Outsourcing is something I need to get better at. For some reason I never feel at ease giving away control of my projects, which is why I often end up spending time on peripheral things like setting up servers or coding up mockups.
There's also the fact that I would feel bad about hiring someone for $12/hour when my own hourly rate is more than 10 times that. But at the same time, I would definitely not be able to afford somebody as expensive as me (or even half as expensive)…
- aymeric 14y ago1. Someone paid $12/hour is actually a good pay in some regions of the world. Even paying a virtual assistant $5/hour in the Philippines make sense financially for them. So don't feel bad, you allow someone to be paid well and have great flexibility at home. 2. That's why the mini-project helps, you get to judge the person's trustworthiness. There is a risk in outsourcing, I can't deny it, but the returns far outweighs the risk for me.
- phazmatis 14y ago$12/hour is a decent wage in parts of the US.
- morganwilde 14y agoJust to give some perspective (minimum hourly wage): - San Francisco as of January 1, 2013 - $10.55 - The state of California - $8.00 - The state of New York - $7.25 With that in mind, $12/hour for qualified CS or any other engineering work is Ridiculous.
- eru 14y agoWhat do US minimum wages have to do with anything?