What's the most you ever made per hour? (spin off)

[MallyG]

$52/hr Some of ya'll niggas is doing it though. Makes me wonder why I'm not making more and then I remember I have like 0 drive and realize I'm blessed to be making what I'm making. lol

If u put the same energy into your career the way you do w/ your (titangraph) post, you'd prolly double your $. lol

You're doing very well tho!

 

[konceptjones]

$29.26 I should clear $90k with oncall/OT. Get a company truck to drive to work and back home, gas on them. Cable/phone/internet/security system I pay $50 a month. Company match my 401k 100% up to 6%. I started off 11.5 years ago making $11 an hour. I'm 32 now.

niggas postin stubs and shit now???

Shit just got real

You're right, it did. Little bit more than half of my client list.

I've been spending some time on Upwork looking for clients.. How long did it take you to land the first one?

I signed up while I was still working as an engineer back when it was still called oDesk. It was really just to get some extra money back then. I started going at it hard on oDesk/Upwork about two months after I got them papers. It took about 4-5 months after that before I landed my first gig, but I had to lowball myself to get it.

The way to do it really is to take a gig or two for low money, say $15-$20/hr and knock it out the park. Once those clients give you a good rating you push your rate up from there and chill with that for a while and take care of the clients you get well to get more good ratings. After a while you get the "Top Rated" designation and can take it higher but you gotta be careful with that, you can't push your price too high or clients will skip you by. How much you can charge really depends on what you're doing on there too. You can also work more than one client at a time, but your hourly clients have a restriction: you can't track time for more than one at a time. You can work on as many flat rate clients as you can handle, but the hourly gigs have to be tracked one at a time (i.e. work 2hrs for client A, stop the clock and switch to client B and work for an hour, etc...)

 

[The Lonious Monk]

$52/hr Some of ya'll niggas is doing it though. Makes me wonder why I'm not making more and then I remember I have like 0 drive and realize I'm blessed to be making what I'm making. lol

If u put the same energy into your career the way you do w/ your (titangraph) post, you'd prolly double your $. lol

You're doing very well tho!

Nigga you ain't lying about that. lol I get paid 52/hr, but that's based on a 40 hour work week. In truth, I probably actually work 18 hrs a day. The funny thing is I get all my work done. Expectations at some of these places are so low that it's not hard to look like you're going above and beyond.

 

[2stepz_ahead]

I'm a Telecom contractor depending on the role my asking price $45-65/hr not counting per diem and or vehicle mileage (that's another check that's not taxed depending on the contract. If it's a short term gig I may ask for more.

you in telecom?

niggaaaaaaaaa

my next visit to charlotte we really need to talk.

i got idea for you

 

[2stepz_ahead]

$29.26 I should clear $90k with oncall/OT. Get a company truck to drive to work and back home, gas on them. Cable/phone/internet/security system I pay $50 a month. Company match my 401k 100% up to 6%. I started off 11.5 years ago making $11 an hour. I'm 32 now.

this nigga said i got proof.....lol

props bruh

 

[goodlookinout]

Currently making $28.61 an hour I clean transit buses we just signed a new 5 year contract so by the end of the contract I'll be at $35 and change

 

[IceManKam]

~$34 an hour as an entry-level Software Engineer in Denver. Money tends to stretch longer than I imagine when you grow up poor and cheap.

Too blessed to be stressed.

 

[EmM HoLLa.]

$29.26 I should clear $90k with oncall/OT. Get a company truck to drive to work and back home, gas on them. Cable/phone/internet/security system I pay $50 a month. Company match my 401k 100% up to 6%. I started off 11.5 years ago making $11 an hour. I'm 32 now.

niggas postin stubs and shit now???

Shit just got real

You're right, it did. Little bit more than half of my client list.

I've been spending some time on Upwork looking for clients.. How long did it take you to land the first one?

I signed up while I was still working as an engineer back when it was still called oDesk. It was really just to get some extra money back then. I started going at it hard on oDesk/Upwork about two months after I got them papers. It took about 4-5 months after that before I landed my first gig, but I had to lowball myself to get it.

The way to do it really is to take a gig or two for low money, say $15-$20/hr and knock it out the park. Once those clients give you a good rating you push your rate up from there and chill with that for a while and take care of the clients you get well to get more good ratings. After a while you get the "Top Rated" designation and can take it higher but you gotta be careful with that, you can't push your price too high or clients will skip you by. How much you can charge really depends on what you're doing on there too. You can also work more than one client at a time, but your hourly clients have a restriction: you can't track time for more than one at a time. You can work on as many flat rate clients as you can handle, but the hourly gigs have to be tracked one at a time (i.e. work 2hrs for client A, stop the clock and switch to client B and work for an hour, etc...)

Interesting.. Good insight here.. Thanks..

 

[king hassan]

I got like 5 cats into IT and got them contracting jobs using my connects.

Next step is for me to start a mini staffing firm.

I've been looking into the staffing shit too. Middle-man caking off your hourly wage unnecessarily.

I stopped trying to talk MFs into this IT shit. I mention it, but trying to put MFs on when they doubt themselves was too tiring. Kept gettin hit with that - yeah, you gotta be real good at math, etc...

That's what's up tho - glad you was able to put people on.

Man some ppl u cant blame. All thru school i would study my ass off for a math test and still end up no better than a C or D.

Then write my ass off an A on every essay/final on the spot, wrote some essays for other ppl n got em A's, even tutored one of my friends.

Numbers were just never my thing but it seems to get u farther in most higher paying careers.

Man, I could never get the numbers, but I went to Chicago State for Professional and Technical writing in the Journalism field. But they say if you good in math most people can't write and vice versa

 

[7figz]

I got like 5 cats into IT and got them contracting jobs using my connects.

Next step is for me to start a mini staffing firm.

I've been looking into the staffing shit too. Middle-man caking off your hourly wage unnecessarily.

I stopped trying to talk MFs into this IT shit. I mention it, but trying to put MFs on when they doubt themselves was too tiring. Kept gettin hit with that - yeah, you gotta be real good at math, etc...

That's what's up tho - glad you was able to put people on.

Man some ppl u cant blame. All thru school i would study my ass off for a math test and still end up no better than a C or D.

Then write my ass off an A on every essay/final on the spot, wrote some essays for other ppl n got em A's, even tutored one of my friends.

Numbers were just never my thing but it seems to get u farther in most higher paying careers.

Man, I could never get the numbers, but I went to Chicago State for Professional and Technical writing in the Journalism field. But they say if you good in math most people can't write and vice versa

I saw a dope Technical Writer position (in the IT field) the other day. I have no doubt, with that degree, you'd have been able to finesse that shit whether or not you had IT experience. Shit was paying bank and was remote if I remember correctly.

 

[2stepz_ahead]

before i started my business i was making $19 an hour. and that was a come up.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

Basic math and writing skills are money makers believe that.

 

[Cinco]

Yeah numbers was always my thing I got a minor in Mathematics, Major BS/MS in EE then brushed up on my technical writing skills while in the industry.

 

[Go figure]

I got like 5 cats into IT and got them contracting jobs using my connects.

Next step is for me to start a mini staffing firm.

I've been looking into the staffing shit too. Middle-man caking off your hourly wage unnecessarily.

I stopped trying to talk MFs into this IT shit. I mention it, but trying to put MFs on when they doubt themselves was too tiring. Kept gettin hit with that - yeah, you gotta be real good at math, etc...

That's what's up tho - glad you was able to put people on.

Man some ppl u cant blame. All thru school i would study my ass off for a math test and still end up no better than a C or D.

Then write my ass off an A on every essay/final on the spot, wrote some essays for other ppl n got em A's, even tutored one of my friends.

Numbers were just never my thing but it seems to get u farther in most higher paying careers.

Same here. With that said I'm still planning on making use off my IT degree after all. I figured since I already have a STEM degree I might as well use it. Like homey said above unless you're programing mathematical formulas are a non factor.

How much time/money does it take to get these degrees?

 

[king hassan]

I got like 5 cats into IT and got them contracting jobs using my connects.

Next step is for me to start a mini staffing firm.

I've been looking into the staffing shit too. Middle-man caking off your hourly wage unnecessarily.

I stopped trying to talk MFs into this IT shit. I mention it, but trying to put MFs on when they doubt themselves was too tiring. Kept gettin hit with that - yeah, you gotta be real good at math, etc...

That's what's up tho - glad you was able to put people on.

Man some ppl u cant blame. All thru school i would study my ass off for a math test and still end up no better than a C or D.

Then write my ass off an A on every essay/final on the spot, wrote some essays for other ppl n got em A's, even tutored one of my friends.

Numbers were just never my thing but it seems to get u farther in most higher paying careers.

Man, I could never get the numbers, but I went to Chicago State for Professional and Technical writing in the Journalism field. But they say if you good in math most people can't write and vice versa

I saw a dope Technical Writer position (in the IT field) the other day. I have no doubt, with that degree, you'd have been able to finesse that shit whether or not you had IT experience. Shit was paying bank and was remote if I remember correctly.

Man, the thing with that field is it's real tight. And when I was in college I was already working full time and living on my on, they wanted me to intern and I couldn't work for free @ time

 

[konceptjones]

I got like 5 cats into IT and got them contracting jobs using my connects.

Next step is for me to start a mini staffing firm.

I've been looking into the staffing shit too. Middle-man caking off your hourly wage unnecessarily.

I stopped trying to talk MFs into this IT shit. I mention it, but trying to put MFs on when they doubt themselves was too tiring. Kept gettin hit with that - yeah, you gotta be real good at math, etc...

That's what's up tho - glad you was able to put people on.

Man some ppl u cant blame. All thru school i would study my ass off for a math test and still end up no better than a C or D.

Then write my ass off an A on every essay/final on the spot, wrote some essays for other ppl n got em A's, even tutored one of my friends.

Numbers were just never my thing but it seems to get u farther in most higher paying careers.

Man, I could never get the numbers, but I went to Chicago State for Professional and Technical writing in the Journalism field. But they say if you good in math most people can't write and vice versa

I never got this. I've always been good at math and writing.

I have a friend that went to school for Tech Writing at Michigan Tech. Last I heard she was doing pretty well in the field. The tech writers at my engineering job were stacking, but the chicks that were tech writers when I was in security were caked for real. Two of them had their CISSP certs but got them just to understand the shit better, not to actually use it.

 

[Broddie]

I got like 5 cats into IT and got them contracting jobs using my connects.

Next step is for me to start a mini staffing firm.

I've been looking into the staffing shit too. Middle-man caking off your hourly wage unnecessarily.

I stopped trying to talk MFs into this IT shit. I mention it, but trying to put MFs on when they doubt themselves was too tiring. Kept gettin hit with that - yeah, you gotta be real good at math, etc...

That's what's up tho - glad you was able to put people on.

Man some ppl u cant blame. All thru school i would study my ass off for a math test and still end up no better than a C or D.

Then write my ass off an A on every essay/final on the spot, wrote some essays for other ppl n got em A's, even tutored one of my friends.

Numbers were just never my thing but it seems to get u farther in most higher paying careers.

Same here. With that said I'm still planning on making use off my IT degree after all. I figured since I already have a STEM degree I might as well use it. Like homey said above unless you're programing mathematical formulas are a non factor.

How much time/money does it take to get these degrees?

It took me 2 years but you can just go for certs. It takes less time.

 

[7figz]

I got like 5 cats into IT and got them contracting jobs using my connects.

Next step is for me to start a mini staffing firm.

I've been looking into the staffing shit too. Middle-man caking off your hourly wage unnecessarily.

I stopped trying to talk MFs into this IT shit. I mention it, but trying to put MFs on when they doubt themselves was too tiring. Kept gettin hit with that - yeah, you gotta be real good at math, etc...

That's what's up tho - glad you was able to put people on.

Man some ppl u cant blame. All thru school i would study my ass off for a math test and still end up no better than a C or D.

Then write my ass off an A on every essay/final on the spot, wrote some essays for other ppl n got em A's, even tutored one of my friends.

Numbers were just never my thing but it seems to get u farther in most higher paying careers.

Man, I could never get the numbers, but I went to Chicago State for Professional and Technical writing in the Journalism field. But they say if you good in math most people can't write and vice versa

I never got this. I've always been good at math and writing.

I have a friend that went to school for Tech Writing at Michigan Tech. Last I heard she was doing pretty well in the field. The tech writers at my engineering job were stacking, but the chicks that were tech writers when I was in security were caked for real. Two of them had their CISSP certs but got them just to understand the shit better, not to actually use it.

Yeah @"king hassan", I'll show you a link to that job when i get a chance but just check out those tech. Writer IT jobs. They damn sure aint asking you to work for free right now. Right now, documentation sucks on a lot of shit.

 

[Broddie]

Tech writing is a goldmine. Only reason im getting back into IT is to eventually transition there.

 

[king hassan]

I got like 5 cats into IT and got them contracting jobs using my connects.

Next step is for me to start a mini staffing firm.

I've been looking into the staffing shit too. Middle-man caking off your hourly wage unnecessarily.

I stopped trying to talk MFs into this IT shit. I mention it, but trying to put MFs on when they doubt themselves was too tiring. Kept gettin hit with that - yeah, you gotta be real good at math, etc...

That's what's up tho - glad you was able to put people on.

Man some ppl u cant blame. All thru school i would study my ass off for a math test and still end up no better than a C or D.

Then write my ass off an A on every essay/final on the spot, wrote some essays for other ppl n got em A's, even tutored one of my friends.

Numbers were just never my thing but it seems to get u farther in most higher paying careers.

Man, I could never get the numbers, but I went to Chicago State for Professional and Technical writing in the Journalism field. But they say if you good in math most people can't write and vice versa

I never got this. I've always been good at math and writing.

I have a friend that went to school for Tech Writing at Michigan Tech. Last I heard she was doing pretty well in the field. The tech writers at my engineering job were stacking, but the chicks that were tech writers when I was in security were caked for real. Two of them had their CISSP certs but got them just to understand the shit better, not to actually use it.

Yeah @"king hassan", I'll show you a link to that job when i get a chance but just check out those tech. Writer IT jobs. They damn sure aint asking you to work for free right now. Right now, documentation sucks on a lot of shit.

Cool, right on