FW: Guesstimate THIS! (was RE: Contracting Experiences

Subject: FW: Guesstimate THIS! (was RE: Contracting Experiences
From: Lynn Perry <CLPerry -at- WALLDATA -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:23:58 -0700

Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
<snip>
> Do I understand correctly that most of you folks who
> are contractors are charging by-the-hour?
<snip>
Can you call yourself independent when you work hourly?
</snip>

As a freelancer, I estimate the number of hours for each job, but I charge
by the hour (and invoice on a per-month basis. My suggestion: do *not* "wait
till the end" of a "one-month" project before you submit an invoice. Unless
you are a *lot* more financially comfortable than I was, when that
"one-month" went to six weeks with no end in sight, I was really starting to
hurt. I finally had to submit an invoice for the first month, informing them
that my invoices would come monthly from then on -- that was fine with
them).

I do not charge a higher rate for more than 40 hours per week, (but the
agencies I worked with as a contractor, did).

"Independent," in my book at least, refers to being my own boss, paying
taxes for myself, having to cost out my own vacations, eating my sick time,
and writing my own contracts. "Independent" means I work for myself.
Personally, I don't consider contractors who work through agencies to be
independent, regardless unless they work *as* an independent contractor,
billing the agency instead of the client (that is, 1099 income rather than
W2).

C. Lynn Perry
clperry -at- walldata -dot- com
Wall Data Incorporated / Seattle WA
Some days it doesn't pay to gnaw through the straps

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