“Honey, I Shrunk My Hourly Rate!”
Sound familiar? It should; it’s the title of an 80’s movie, modified. And even with the new meaning, it’s still something we’ve heard before, a fairly common utterance (thought not in those exact words) especially in these times.
With all the economic crisis and inflation going on, one would expect that freelancer rates would be going up instead of down.
Sadly, this is not the case.
But if we took a minute to reflect on how it got that way, we’d … [Continue reading]
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