We all like to get paid
yet when ask what 'getting paid' MEANS
they become a little less certain (some would say little less cock sure).
If your IT Business is like a flower garden... Will it smell attractive?
The conversation starts clearly enough. $60 dollars per hour one will say.. $70 dollars per hour or I don't get out of bed will say another.. or $40 dollars per hour might be an impossible dream for a third... As I say contractors are clear and rarely struggle at this point.. its when you move the conversation to the level below that where the going gets more like clay-sticking-to-the-boots... because the next level is not that easy to define.
for example
how much do you value being able to express your ideas and have them heard and implimented because they are good and not get dismissed, because you are just a contractor, because you are not part of their 'culture', because you are paid to just come in, do the hackwork and leave.
In other words how much more valuable do we feel when we are listened to, trusted, taken seriously, accepted as an important part of the solution rather than just an infectious expense, to be cut away the sooner the better?
Don't get me wrong. Some contractors are quite happy with this arrangement and there is nothing wrong it.
Yet I have spoken to contractors who say they cannot imagine their life being valued at just $70 dollars an hour and proceed to stack an amazing list of items on top of that to show they clearly mean it when they say their life is worth way more than a dollar price tag that probably explains why they are getting way beyond $70.
So to what extent do you think knowing what to get paid is important?
In other words what must you have growing in your garden to feel you are getting paid?
WHAT CONFLICT has hidden itself here?
