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Subject:Re: What makes us competitive? (was Re: Rates) From:Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> Date:Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:49:15 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, it's nice to have choices. And when there aren't any $1000/weekend gigs, what then?
$1000 a weekend. I suspect you do fishing charters or something like that. I don't own a boat and even if I did I live 300 miles from the coast. So what do I do?
If it was me, I'd take the $22/hour job and do the weekend gig. I can't figure how the one would prevent the other.
If you know how to find something that pays $1000 for a weekend, mind telling me where and how?
--- On Tue, 10/26/10, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> wrote:
If taking that kind of job prevents me from doing work that usually
makes me about $1000 a weekend (if the weather's good), then working for
$22/hr seems pointless.
If a bit more Monday-through-Friday effort spent on marketing can get me
to $2000 a weekend (which is about the maximum I can fit into the
schedule) then even $40 an hour starts to look pointless.
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