> if they hire me for an 8 hour day, I'd darn well better give them a proper 8 hours' of work. If I was to hire you, I expect I will pay you your rate for the

> if they hire me for an 8 hour day, I'd darn well better give them a proper 8 hours' of work. If I was to hire you, I expect I will pay you your rate for the emails you send to me telling me status of your work, for the time you spend researching the problem at hand, and for telling me that if I compromise on one part of the development that I would get $BENEFIT and that I should change my specification to get $BENEFIT. None of this is writing code but all of it is very valuable. I've come to realize that people who write code are not as valued by those who authorize the writing of checks as people who can communicate and get shit done. It doesn't matter if you write code well, it matters that you get shit done and communicate about it to others.