Jerry Banfield

How do we balance out what we want to earn per hour with what wage people will actually pay us? What works to set an hourly rate we are happy with? For freelancing online this tends to continuously be challenging. Will you hear the stories of exploring how much to charge and the series of jobs I went through before ever getting into doing work I loved for a great hourly wage? After graduating with my bachelor’s degree in 2006, I accepted a job for less than $10 where I was risking my life because I was unwilling to give up the demand to have my own place or move home with my parents. I thought I was smart by trying to keep a job always and just move up hourly pay over and over again. The problem was that every time I got a better job, I just made an excuse to upgrade where I lived and increase my expenses. Never once did I successfully negotiate my salary in taking jobs until I finally negotiated an extra $3,000 a year in graduate school. While you might think having my own business gives me freedom f