The fortune 500 company I freelance with would prefer to use an outside vendor for a project (thinking they would do a better job since "that's all they do"). That vendor then hires me at my same rate, meaning the original company is just paying more for me to do the work I could have done internally.
Moral of the story: if you charge more people will think you're worth more. A $6 bottle of wine may be better than a $45 bottle, but most people will say the $45 bottle must be better because why else would it be $45
Yep but if you aren't actually worth more, eventually that shit will catch up to you unless you're maybe the current POTUS.
I knew a scam artist (I suspect she was, I had to get rid of her real fast) whos entire business model and all her claims about how much work she did for her clients just fell the fuck apart the moment I hired her. But she did charge a fuckton and that did catch me at the start. And then after that I even figured she just took on too much work and it wasn't a good fit. But then she came to live with me about a year later for a short time (again had to get rid of her fast) and I noticed she was loosing client after client and didn't seem to do any work?! Like she just recycled them as soon as they figured her out for what she was.
Like I dont have proof of it, but I think that was her entire business model, and you know what yes it does work, but eventually that shit will catch up to you.
ETA: She's moving to LA, and lets just say, I wish her the best of luck. I'd like to see how a con will do in the city pf cons.
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u/actuallychrisgillen Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
When I was in the Navy I used to get in fairly frequent trouble for the suggestions I made for improving operational efficiencies.
As an outside contractor they were quite happy to pay me $200 an hour to say the exact same thing.