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> You can still throw 3 hours per day at a client, and the next 3 hours of that same day at another client; all you have to do is be honest with yourself about
by dminor 12y ago
> You can still throw 3 hours per day at a client, and the next 3 hours of that same day at another client; all you have to do is be honest with yourself about how you're doing. And again: part of the terms of a day rate is, you get to round up.
Can you explain more clearly what you mean by "be honest with yourself about how you're doing"?
If you work 3 hours one day and 3 hours the next day, are you charging 2 days, or do you consolidate it into 1?
- tptacek 12y agoIf I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and 3 hours the next and then I'm done, I bill one day. If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, I bill one day. If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, and then the client asks me to build a Bar widget and I work 3 hours the next day and then I'm done, I might bill 1 day or I might bill 2, depending on the relationship. This doesn't come up much. If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, and then a week later the client asks me to build a Bar widget and I work 3 hours next week and then I'm done, I bill 2 days.
- dminor 12y agoThanks
- newlog 12y agoI missed the "If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day, 3 hours the next and 3 hours the next and then I'm done, I bill ¿?." One or two days? :) It depends on the client?
- sarciszewski 12y agoYou've put more than 1 standard 8-hour work day of effort into the project. If you round up, you have two days.
- newlog 12y agoAlthough it's too close to one day, that it might be a bit unethical to say it were two...
- sarciszewski 12y agoThen do that.
- tptacek 12y agoI'd probably bill 1 day if I did the work in dribs and drabs over 3 days and the total number of hours I spent were closer to 1 day than 2. You know how you'd feel if you worked 3 hours a day for 3 days: not like a superhero. I don't know, this has just never happened with me.
- newlog 12y agoThanks ;)