May 04, 2002
So I'm making my first
So I'm making my first true "estimate" in freelancing. If I go over, I don't get paid for the extra hours I put in. If I go under, it's technically my option to claim all the hours or turn in less - if I turn in less, then my client will bill her client less, which spreads good feeling and loyalty all around. This feels like a cushy project and I feel like ideally I could get it done in 8-12 hours, but there's so much other stuff that can come up - so right now I'm thinking of bidding 24 hours. I'll sit on it overnight and maybe I'll bid 20 instead.What's the project, you ask? It's to accept criteria from a form, decode the criteria and use it to select data from a database fitting that criteria, and then serve the resulting datasets back to the person in an automatically generated Excel document. They're also password-protected, and there's seven different kinds.
Posted by Curt at May 4, 2002 05:53 PM