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Freelance Switch

Are you a Freelancer? Or are you thinking of crossing over to our fabulous world? Yes, it’s all sleeping in till noon, martinis in the morning, and Golden Girls reruns in the afternoons, and the money just keeps flowing in! What a life!

Either way, you may enjoy the Freelance Switch blog, which bills itself as “a Community & Resource for freelancers” with some smart tips (such as today’s recent 10 Essential Steps to Avoid Freelance Headaches), clever comics by a N.C. Winters, and an intriguing Rate Calculator:

We have developed this hourly rate calculator to give you a guide based on your costs, number of billable hours and desired profit. It is a simple tool for you to play with.

Remember your hourly rate should always take into account factors like market demand, industry standards, skill level and experience – things that unfortunately we can’t put into a calculator!

Use these calculations as a guide and then modify to suit your circumstance and conditions.

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  • http://elnegromagnifico.blogspot.com El Negro Magnifico

    Cool! That strip in the middle is spot-on.

  • http://elnegromagnifico.blogspot.com El Negro Magnifico

    Cool! That strip in the middle is spot-on.

  • http://www.luclatulippe.com/ Luc

    Yep, been there often too. :)

  • http://www.luclatulippe.com Luc

    Yep, been there often too. :)

  • mbarok

    Ha, that’s funny! I do a strip in the same vein, but it’s in portuguese, so I guess the jokes would be lost on most. Ah well. At least I’m not the only one out there!

  • mbarok

    Ha, that’s funny! I do a strip in the same vein, but it’s in portuguese, so I guess the jokes would be lost on most. Ah well. At least I’m not the only one out there!

  • shamp00kie

    Neat! I remember N.C. Winter from his old comic “Voice of Doom” he did for the University of Arizona newspaper several years ago. Easily the best strip to have been in that paper. Good to see he’s still making comics.

  • shamp00kie

    Neat! I remember N.C. Winter from his old comic “Voice of Doom” he did for the University of Arizona newspaper several years ago. Easily the best strip to have been in that paper. Good to see he’s still making comics.

  • http://www.comingupforair.net/ Matt

    Very funny. Great post.

  • http://www.comingupforair.net Matt

    Very funny. Great post.

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com/ Jed Alexander

    This site is amazing! A great resource! And despite my aversion to typeset comic strip lettering, I do relate particularly to the top two cartoons. It’s amazing how much work people want for as little as they can pay for it, and I hate having to guess what people want from their inarticulate, but very demanding demands. Worse still is when, after you take something to a finish, it turns out the client has left out some key piece of information that requires you to scrap the whole thing and start fresh, and of course, you have to eat the time.

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com Jed Alexander

    This site is amazing! A great resource! And despite my aversion to typeset comic strip lettering, I do relate particularly to the top two cartoons. It’s amazing how much work people want for as little as they can pay for it, and I hate having to guess what people want from their inarticulate, but very demanding demands. Worse still is when, after you take something to a finish, it turns out the client has left out some key piece of information that requires you to scrap the whole thing and start fresh, and of course, you have to eat the time.