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Originally Posted by AcidMax
Some of you bitching about programmers need to look at yourselves too. Lets face it this industry is not about forking over money to programmers and designers. Everyone wants shit cheap, with that you get shitty and shotty work. Maybe if more people wanted to pay what most good programmers would get $30-80 an hour, then you wouldn't have so many problems finding programmers.
I have been a programmer in this business for years and have done many projects and wrote content management systems etc. Fighting for a nickle and working twice as hard as you should for nothing isn't fun. Those of us who are good programmers and have a good skillset are gainfully employed by companies who recognize our worth.
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Very true. Clients often don't seem to realize that with a good programmer, they aren't just paying for the hours you spend coding for them, but also for the library of code you've built up over the years, most often in your spare time.
I once actually had a client refusing to pay the amount we had agreed on because I finished the script too quickly. It was ridiculous - he needed the script as quickly as possible, and I delivered it in a day, way below the price other programmers had offered.
But, for some reason, he thought no programmer should get over $300 an hour - ignoring the fact that all the code came from my own code library, and had taken hundreds if not thousands of hours to develop.
Fucker never changed his passwords though, so he found himself with a full refund and no script... two months later, I had the pleasure of telling him to fuck off when he practically begged if he could buy the script at the original price
