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Re:How Playing Around with New Technologies Landed Me a 6-Mo... by ishanjain28 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:24PM (#15911766)
India. I charge $40/hour and people either ask me to charge a one time fee or reduce the price. Funny how people forget there are other places on earth where charging $150/hour would be nuts!
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Re:How Playing Around with New Technologies Landed Me a 6-Mo... by sidlls on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:39PM (#15912067)
I didn't forget. I simply am not competing with that worker. We aren't in the same labor market.
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Re:How Playing Around with New Technologies Landed Me a 6-Mo... by maxxxxx on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:44PM (#15911853)
That's seriously good money if you are not in one of the big cities, right?
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Re:How Playing Around with New Technologies Landed Me a 6-Mo... by thisisit on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:57PM (#15911914)
That is good money even if he is in the cities, thanks for the conversion rates. But depends on the frequency of work too.

That said, Congrats ishanjain28. I don't even get close to that :)

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Re:How Playing Around with New Technologies Landed Me a 6-Mo... by EADGBE on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:33AM (#15914420)
Key is rate here.

If they work for an hour a week, that amazing number really isn't that amazing anymore.

If they can sustain such a workload over time for hopefully much more than an hour a week (keep in mind, it was 1 free hour per 1 paid hour, so $75/hr average), then yeah, pretty freaking amazing.

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Re:How Playing Around with New Technologies Landed Me a 6-Mo... by ishanjain28 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:46PM (#15911860)
I am a student so $40/hour works great for me. I don't know if it's good money when you are paying for rent and other costs in a city.
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Re:How Playing Around with New Technologies Landed Me a 6-Mo... by pulkitpahwa on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:03AM (#15912372)
It's good in any major city in India if you get regular work. Considering average Rs. 12 lpa as what a good software developer earns as full time (at least 50 hours/ week).
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