I'm currently doing IT Consultancy for a charity based facility. As it is, they're really low on cash so while I *will* charge, I will charge what is favourable to them and to myself too- £20 an hour is incredibly cheap but is just what I need to get out of the rut we've been stuck in.
Day job: probably £48 a day. Consultancy- £20 an hour.
Yesterday, I booked monday off as a holiday and am doing consultancy for the whole day between 9-3:30. £130 for me, woop! :-)
Some of the things i've had to do:
Repair a professionals mistakes- only to find out the "pro" was a 6 year old kid.
remove dialers and porn based hijackers, then get called back 2 days later to do the same. I installed parental controls and left it at that- sinec the security software, zonealarm, was not enough to keep this guy from getting his compuiter screwed.
I worked with this guy in the past- he thought my currency conversion site, XE.com, was a porn site!
The same guy also thought that any of his computers could be hacked into over the internet, even if they were not connected.
Floppy's in CD drives, Peanuts in USB sockets, Jam on the board- the story behind this one was that the guys kid had seen Spaceballs and decided to "Jam" his computer to get more time with his dad for a bit. That one had me pissing myself.
Day job: probably £48 a day. Consultancy- £20 an hour.
Yesterday, I booked monday off as a holiday and am doing consultancy for the whole day between 9-3:30. £130 for me, woop! :-)
Some of the things i've had to do:
Repair a professionals mistakes- only to find out the "pro" was a 6 year old kid.
remove dialers and porn based hijackers, then get called back 2 days later to do the same. I installed parental controls and left it at that- sinec the security software, zonealarm, was not enough to keep this guy from getting his compuiter screwed.
I worked with this guy in the past- he thought my currency conversion site, XE.com, was a porn site!
The same guy also thought that any of his computers could be hacked into over the internet, even if they were not connected.
Floppy's in CD drives, Peanuts in USB sockets, Jam on the board- the story behind this one was that the guys kid had seen Spaceballs and decided to "Jam" his computer to get more time with his dad for a bit. That one had me pissing myself.