From: Dale Ponte <dpon..@..bermesa.com>
Date: 2008-07-25 09:02:52
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Subject: Re: pricing? (for a fresh-faced translator)
Date: 2008-07-25 09:02:52
Message ID: <909483f0-6b80-420c-b7fc-42c0c1ac57a4@r35g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
Parent: <a66f7a300807250530y27306b13x9fb175499cc96cae@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pricing? (for a fresh-faced translator)
Ben Allen contends:
> If a
> dishwasher was also skilled as a violinist, but didn't play violin
> professionally, should he get minimum wage (like a dishwasher) just
> because that is his primary profession, rather than about $100 per
> hour as might be appropriate if he were to play at an even like a
> wedding?
A worthy point. Though it makes me wonder: if at a wedding this
dishwasher, so employed, were discovered squeaking Mozart's quartets
off the dishes!, and even outdrew the hired violinist, should s/he
make, say, somewhere between minimum and $100, or even more than a
$100? Then again, I can imagine a shower of tips, not to the mention
the dishwasher's own pre-economic pleasure, mooting the question.
(Caveat paupertas, of course.)
Best of practical sense, advice, intuition, creativity and heart to
you, Ben. And fertile, absorptive mind for study!!
~
Dale
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without any
loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill, who was also an extraordinary
painter
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> If a
> dishwasher was also skilled as a violinist, but didn't play violin
> professionally, should he get minimum wage (like a dishwasher) just
> because that is his primary profession, rather than about $100 per
> hour as might be appropriate if he were to play at an even like a
> wedding?
A worthy point. Though it makes me wonder: if at a wedding this
dishwasher, so employed, were discovered squeaking Mozart's quartets
off the dishes!, and even outdrew the hired violinist, should s/he
make, say, somewhere between minimum and $100, or even more than a
$100? Then again, I can imagine a shower of tips, not to the mention
the dishwasher's own pre-economic pleasure, mooting the question.
(Caveat paupertas, of course.)
Best of practical sense, advice, intuition, creativity and heart to
you, Ben. And fertile, absorptive mind for study!!
~
Dale
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without any
loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill, who was also an extraordinary
painter
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