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Well… a kind of a victory for me. After juggling the day job and a lot of side-gigging in 2023, I reached a point where I had to choose one or the other.
Since I’m posting here, can you guess which one I chose? 😉
Still at the day job for another week, but after that it’s all me, all the time.
Oh shiiiiiit Stephanie (pardon my French). That sucks.
Yeah, it was such an easy re-do (for me) and I made assumptions about what they wanted to communicate. It was just ONE slide in a much much larger deck, but yesss. For sure. No giving them good stuff for free.
I *am* a big fan of parties.. thanks Stephanie.
Yeah, I have contracted income (or close to it) to replace the day job income for a while… but it’s still a big step, psychologically.
Oh, I love this little thread.
I’m focusing on teaching and helping people learn Power BI… and I don’t have fun imagery like bright yellow jeeps or mountains, but I’m trying to be the guy who anyone can feel they can sit down with for a coffee / beer / cocktail and learn Power BI and data things easily with no pressure. Friendly, Fun. 🙂
(Getting new pro photos soon to reflect this too)
During a recent Office Hours I said something like “I keep upping the price until I feel uncomfortable”… mainly because we tend to undervalue our own work.
BUT.. it means I feel uncomfortable a lot. Over and over.
It’s the price to pay I guess. (punny!)
Small update to the above message. The client wanted me right away and on-call, so I wrote up an agreement (that I described a bit in Office Hours) with a per hour (it seemed unavoidable) rate that I felt was extremely high (but hey, you want me on-demand, you’ll pay for it).
Turns out they haven’t even blinked at this ungodly high rate and we have moved ahead and I just sent them their first On Call Invoice for April.
Thank you Sarah. 🙂
I’ve had this discussion as a tab in Chrome forever now to respond to you (but as you know, I emailed you too) because I appreciate your honesty.
Yeah, I’m pretty new to this so I still am developing my “red flag” detector (beyond just having a bad vibe), and I’m definitely learning what questions to ask in the early stages.