Difficult getting rates to match industry experience

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I love LAMP

[chris79]

twice the speed of an average candidate - get two gigs and do both at the same time - preferably from home

[Paddy]

I am in a similar situation. It takes me about a hour to do my work and that is about eight times faster than the permies. The rest of my times is taken up by updating my skills and doing my own work via a VPN. The trick is making the one hours work look longer and more complicated than it is.

[chicane]

I am in a similar situation. It takes me about a hour to do my work and that is about eight times faster than the permies. The rest of my times is taken up by updating my skills and doing my own work via a VPN.

Just out of interest, do you deliberately limit the amount of work you do for your ClientCo to one hour a day, or is there nothing left to do until the next day once you've completed the hour of work?

Most of my work for current ClientCo consists of small projects for which around 2 months development time has been set aside, to align with the expected working speed of the "average" developer. I normally spend the first couple of weeks getting half the project finished, followed by 6-8 weeks of working considerably more slowly just to align with their expectations of the speed I should be working.

This sounds somewhat morally questionable - but I don't want the client to get the impression that I'm willing to work at twice the speed of everybody else for the same money.

And to be honest, current ClientCo would likely assume that the initially allocated timescales were overegged rather than attributing the early delivery to a highly capable developer.