If I do a job in 30 minutes, I spent 20 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. And therefore, you owe me for the years, not for the minutes.

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If I do a job in 30 minutes, I spent 20 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. And therefore, you owe me for the years, not for the minutes.
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[Ohiogoldfever]

A great many people don’t really understand this. I am fortunate to hold skills that fairly few people have. I have had customers seem a bit perved when I deny quoting a lower quality project. It’s simple really. Why compete with a 100 other contractors quoting at the bottom when I can set a fair price for me and another customer who’s not looking for the every day job.

 

[Mackaydon]

So true. Examples abound.: Doctors who charge (say) $5,000 to restore a sense (sight, hearing, smell, etc.) in a four hour procedure. Was it worth it? (Rhetoric question).
Don in SoCal

 

[ArfieBoy]

My whole life has been a learning experience! Now if find myself at a fairly advanced age with less ability to do a lot of the things I learned over my lifetime. I guess it is good that I am retired!

 

[dowser]

If I cook you a breakfast in 30 minutes, you should pay 20 times more, because eggs went up..

 

[ToddsPoint]

It took me yrs of dedication to learn engraving. You don’t get it cheap!

 

[pepperj]

I was asked once to teach the other person.
I replied: Teach you what?
They stated: Teach me, how to buy and sell.

I told him this:
How can I Teach you something that has taken me my whole life to learn?

Each and everything has a different amount of circumstances.

The school of hard knocks can't be taught, you have to live it.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Pepper: Some of the best sales advice I ever received:

"The best salesman does not sell, they create within the customer the desire to buy."

If the guy with 20 years experience can do the job in 30 minutes, and the
fellow with 1 year of experience can do the same job in 35 min., then all that experience doesn't amount to much.

Now, if it's an 8 hr. job for the greenhorn, and only an hour for the experienced
fellow, then the experienced worker charging you a sum equal to 4 hrs. of labor for the greenhorn, then you are way ahead of the game, and the senior person has proven their value.

My $.02 worth...

 

[Timbermaster]

It took me yrs of dedication to learn engraving. You don’t get it cheap!View attachment 2177799

Double wow! Very nice work.

 

[Tpmetal]

Pepper: Some of the best sales advice I ever received:

"The best salesman does not sell, they create within the customer the desire to buy."

If the guy with 20 years experience can do the job in 30 minutes, and the
fellow with 1 year of experience can do the same job in 35 min., then all that experience doesn't amount to much.

Now, if it's an 8 hr. job for the greenhorn, and only an hour for the experienced
fellow, then the experienced worker charging you a sum equal to 4 hrs. of labor for the greenhorn, then you are way ahead of the game, and the senior person has proven their value.

My $.02 worth...View attachment 2177815

You forgot the variable of quality of work. That greenhorns work will more often than not have more mistakes/less accuracy.