Subject: RE: local geek pricing and gathering certifications
From: Mark Weisman (mweisman@gci.net)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 11:05:49 AKST
I third that. Although I do carry several certifications, I get paid and
do the consulting on the things I'm not certified in. I am currently
doing a lot of consulting and other work outside my certification areas.
I have never been asked what I am certified in or if I'm even certified.
I bill out at $135 an hour, and none of my clients have ever debated
that cost.
Thank you,
Mark-Nathaniel Weisman MCP, CNA, A+, MOUS MI
Network Systems Administrator
Career Academy MIS Department
Anchorage, AK
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
Of Anthony Valentine
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:12 AM
To: AKLUG
Subject: Re: local geek pricing and gathering certifications
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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