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Greetings,
I've signed on with a local generic development firm that outsources some of its work to freelancers who ply their craft from home. However rather than dividing up the work and telling each developer what each job pays, the owner chooses to require each developer to estimate each project's duration and cost -- despite the fact that the actual deal has probably been made weeks in advance and that the owner already has a solid number in his head as to the maximum he's willing to pay for someone to do the work.
I understand how this makes great business sense and puts the owner at an advantage, but it completely invalidates the conveniences that come along with working for someone else in the first place. If I have to compete with his countless other employees, why not simply step up, compete with businesses like his, and potentially make more money?
I intend to quit working for this individual once I get my finances straight.
In the meantime, is there a guide or a method you use to estimate projects in situations like this one? What are some typical times and costs it should take to accomplish the following?
-Writing a SQL query that accesses two different tables using a straight join
-Writing a page of code that validates 10 form elements and inserts it into a database
-Slicing & dicing an image file to create a hand-coded, W3C-compliant XHTML template
Best,
Sean
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