Apr '23 • 🧠 Personal Development
Weekly reflection.
Just wanted to share some of my thoughts from this week. I have been working on a shower for the past two weeks. This project is with a GC that I had done work for in the distant past and had priced myself out of their budget long ago.
As some of you know, I had worked out a reduced daily rate because I was sitting home with no work. I reconnected with this GC because I was slow knowing that they were cheap. To my surprise they hired me for this project. Come to find out, they didn't have a budget for the project and subsequent rejected estimates showed that they hadn't changed much.
Working on this project at my reduced rate has been frustrating because this GC was not prepared for me to be on the project. I have been helping iron out the design on the fly as I install and this has dragged the install out into a 3rd week for me. Super frustrating.
My takeaway is that I won't be doing another project at a reduced rate for this GC. The project manager has been suffering along with me, sharing my frustration that nothing was decided before the project was started (he just started working for the GC). The reduced rate stresses me out because there is a lot less margin for this kind of unorganized work. My bad. Lesson learned.
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