I just got an email from a company I work for since 2011.
They have found a replacement for me and he's going to call me for all the info.
I checked out his website and it's basically me from 9 years ago!
He charges 30 euro an hour (undercharging himself..huge mistake) and he does everything!
From reinstalls, building websites, flyers and god knows what else.
O boy....what a flashback.
They must have googled cheap.
When I just started my company I did everything to.
I was clueless, yet eager.
You are so grateful for any work that you end up saying yes to everything and anything.
And you say yes to everything charging almost nothing.
A decision that will haunt you for a long time.
Especially when you realize that when you want to make a living out of it you need to at the least double your rate somehow.
But that's a tough cookie to sell to any clients once they get used to 30 euro.
I was thinking that maybe I can help him like others have helped me.
Or maybe he needs to make his own mistakes first, I never know what is wise in these situations.
All I know is that it took me many years to make my business profitable and charging too little was the main reason.
Luckily over the years, you learn to become more business savvy.
That knowledge has now also helped me in my crypto 'career'.
Before making the switch to live of the blockchain I build a fiat buffer.
Making sure to always have money ready to make investments (example: buying computers/servers) for bigger jobs or for times when work is slow is something you learn working for yourself.
I know this new adventure is a big risk and mitigating some of that in a form of a buffer is natural to me.
It protects me against these current markets that don't look pretty tonight for instance :)
I do wonder how low it will go this time and if I get another chance to invest.
Whatever it will do! It beats reinstalling any windows computer or server :)
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