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Well i just hope it will get better else 15 years of experience goes down the toilet do to some chinese guy in Wuhan who decided he has to eat bats for dinner... if it goes bad i will raise prices and do something else until it gets better again i hope... i can't complain as i can afford to raise prices and wait ... but some people can't ... IT sector is crumbling...people say they need us but i don't see money moving ...Today someone asked me to build him something that takes 3 months to build i gave him price 4500 euros ...fair price do to economic coditions ...and he wanted me to build his project for 300 euros .... "300 euros for 3 months of work are you joking or mad ?"
They're not joking, nor are they mad... They just don't realise our skillset is valuable. They just see our punching on our keyboard and nothing physically gets produced so they think "i can do this, it's more of a hobby, why would i pay anybody for this". Offcourse, our skillset also takes years to develop, it's not free, it's not our hobby either... But hey, that's just not how we are perceived.
I can't even recall the amount of times i went over to friends or family to fix their home computer, and they don't even offer me something to drink. Just fix it and get out... And if their crappy homecomputer breaks withing a year after you fixed it, it got broken because something you did a year ago (according to them) so it was your fault and they basically force you to fix it again (for free offcourse). ugh...