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"and when I charge you $125 for an hour of my time, you got more than that value, because I was working, firing on all cylinders." No, I don't. I might. But

"and when I charge you $125 for an hour of my time, you got more than that value, because I was working, firing on all cylinders." No, I don't. I might. But what you value your time at is different from the value I can derive from using your time.

chc 13y ago
Unless pmichaud is contracting for you, you don't seem to fall into the precondition of "when I charge you $125 for an hour of my time." He presumably sells to people who value his time that highly and doesn't sell do people who think his price is unworkable, so it is almost tautologically true.
- mgkimsal 13y ago
  "presumably" - didn't really come across in his post. He(?) seems to justify the $125 "because I was working, firing on all cylinders". I don't care what your effort is. I don't particularly care if it takes you all your effort, or if you can do it in your sleep. The justification is the value delivered, not the effort expended. He probably does sell to those sorts of people, but again, I doubt they care what effort he's putting in to it. And again, the written justification was "I'm firing on all cylinders". Some people firing on all cylinders manage to pull in $10/hr. Others pull in $10k/day firing on all cylinders. Your effort doesn't matter to someone - what value they can derive from your deliverable is all that matters.
acoleman616 13y ago
You're right. If he's doing his job right, you should be getting MORE than ($125 * # hrs) in value in return.
- mgkimsal 13y ago
  See my post above. But it's really only partially his(?) job. I can 'do my job' right, but if the other party fails to derive value from what I deliver (incompetence, whatever), then it wasn't worth it to them, regardless of how well I did or how much effort I put in. PART (a big part) of my job is to qualify people up front to make sure I'm as unlikely as possible to be wasting each party's time.

chc 13y ago

Unless pmichaud is contracting for you, you don't seem to fall into the precondition of "when I charge you $125 for an hour of my time." He presumably sells to people who value his time that highly and doesn't sell do people who think his price is unworkable, so it is almost tautologically true.

mgkimsal 13y ago
"presumably" - didn't really come across in his post. He(?) seems to justify the $125 "because I was working, firing on all cylinders". I don't care what your effort is. I don't particularly care if it takes you all your effort, or if you can do it in your sleep. The justification is the value delivered, not the effort expended. He probably does sell to those sorts of people, but again, I doubt they care what effort he's putting in to it. And again, the written justification was "I'm firing on all cylinders". Some people firing on all cylinders manage to pull in $10/hr. Others pull in $10k/day firing on all cylinders. Your effort doesn't matter to someone - what value they can derive from your deliverable is all that matters.

acoleman616 13y ago

You're right. If he's doing his job right, you should be getting MORE than ($125 * # hrs) in value in return.

mgkimsal 13y ago
See my post above. But it's really only partially his(?) job. I can 'do my job' right, but if the other party fails to derive value from what I deliver (incompetence, whatever), then it wasn't worth it to them, regardless of how well I did or how much effort I put in. PART (a big part) of my job is to qualify people up front to make sure I'm as unlikely as possible to be wasting each party's time.