I was asked to provide a price quote for unspecified work. This happens more often than I like. Again I'm trying to figure out what works on a spectrum :
- - very non-specific stuff maybe $20x-per-month ( $1x-per-day ) ... for office hours, on an exploratory basis. ... keyword being exploratory : postponing a month of my own work ... just to find out what other people are up to ... not exactly worth $20x, but at least it pays for itself, as a one-off sort of thing. Generally there are a lot of requests for specific outcomes from people who haven't done any homework ... so they they get charged the "IDK what I am talking about rate".
- - very sensitive and specific outcome stuff, say $1x-per-hour ( $8x-per-day ). People who have done their homework usually just need someone ... to affirm their beliefs, to review their entire masterplans, or to audit existing things, so that's very fast.
- - long-term employment, somewhere in between those two rates ( $2x-4x per day seems reasonable )
I'm so bad at commercial stuff, that after 22 years I'm still not comfortable with my own pricing.
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