Subject: Re: local geek pricing and gathering certifications
From: Anthony Valentine (amv@akvalentine.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 00:11:39 AKST
Same here. When I was consulting in my spare time I was charging
$125/hour and I don't have any certifications either.
Anthony
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 22:50, Craig Callender wrote:
>
> The real fact is, if you charge less than $90.00/hour, no one will hire
> you because they will think you are a joke. And if you already have good
> customers in the area, you're probably looking closer to 150-250/hour.
>
> I worked for a company called MosquitoNet up in fairbanks, they contracted
> me (at the time I was 17) to trouble shoot a perl script for a customer at
> $250.00/hour. Guess how many certs I had. Zero. I didn't even have a
> high school diploma. That particular job took me about 12 hours (I didn't
> know perl at the time). So, your price is what you want to make it. I
> would suggest starting for small businesses, and charging between 70 -
> 100/hour. That should get you started, I think certs are a joke.
>
> -- Craig C.
>
> P.s. The real knowledge comes from experience, you can eat your piece of
> paper.
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Buddha wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:01:38 -0800
> From: Buddha <buddha@gci.net>
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: local geek pricing and gathering certifications
>
>
> I've been tapped to be the "geek on call" for a local real estate agency,
> but have zero experience in the private sector. I have countless years with
> "hands on" experience and have spent the last 3.5 yrs as a sys admin on
> Elmendorf.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Can someone point me in the right direction on the web on how to do time
> estimating, how to do business proposals, the order to do things, etc. I'm
> a Gooogle master, but have no idea what the keywords to look for are. (And
> I really suck at this "customer relations" thing...I'm used to being "the
> geek behind the scenes".)
>
> 2) What are the going rates for computer/networking jobs around town per
> hour? I'd heard $90/hr somewhere before. In investigating the network at
> this agency, I talked to the tech at Alaska Computer Brokers eho desined it
> and I asked him a few questions about pricing, etc. His response was,
> "Well, how many certifications do you have". My response: "None. I too
> busy fixing/installing hardware/software that I don't have time to study to
> cert on anything". I mentioned the $90 number to him and he said this was
> the upper range for me as I had no certifications. We chatted some more and
> I come out it feeling like I need to gather as many certs as possible to
> "get paid". Can y'all enlighten me on pricing and this certification
> quandry I seem to be in?
>
>
> Thanx in adavance,
> -Jim "Buddha" McMorris
> Jack of alot of trades...Master of none
>
> PS: Please re-broadcast the particulars on this friday's meeting. Thanx.
>
>
>
>
> In the beginning there was data. The data was without form and
> null, and darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of
> IBM was moving over the face of the market. And DEC said, "Let there
> be registers"; and there were registers. And DEC saw that they
> carried; and DEC separated the data from the instructions. DEC called
> the data Stack, and the instructions they called Code. And there was
> evening and there was morning, one interrupt.
> -- Rico Tudor, "The Story of Creation or, The Myth of Urk"
>
>
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