Services For Hire Overview

 
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I am an experienced hardware service technician, with training and experience at general (help desk) computer support, and competence at (hand) coding web-pages. I am currently seeking opportunities for employment, working from a home office on flexible hours, or any other workplace arrangement that facilitates my working in a productive manner.

Rates for Services

    I prefer to bill my services on a fixed rate basis, where the charges are based on the scope of the work that needs to be performed. So, as I am able to come up with fair pricing to do this, the work I am able to handle on a fixed rate basis is added to the Technical Support and Web Development pages. Otherwise, the hourly rates given below are my guidelines for the process of quote generation, and are provided as a courtesy.

Travel Time

    For any on-site service, travel time-- excluding any unreasonable delay-- is included in the billable time. The exception to this is any location easily accessible by TTC; for which I will usually charge a flat-rate $20 fee, to cover all travel to and from that site. (One charge for the "support incident" or project, even if multiple trips are required.) While for anything within about a 15 minute walk, I usually won't charge anything for "the opportunity to get out and stretch my legs".

Hourly Rates

    I also do not believe in charging clients for what amounts to my own research. As clients should be paying for my services, and the expertise I already have-- not my developing the "general method that works" to handle something. So for work billed by actual time, rather than a specific job billed by a firm quote, I do sometimes bill based on the time it would take to do the work again.

    It should be noted that the above rates are based on my working mostly from a home office, on completely flexible hours. Work that must be performed at some job site or "place of employment", or must be performed during specific hours, could incur at least a 50% surcharge. And any "leave whatever I'm doing, and handle this now" emergency will incur at least a 100% surcharge.

    Please also note that I reserve the right to change these fees, or how these fees are applied, without prior notification.