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Tanguy Andreani • Edited

It doesn’t really count but I "lost" my first (and last) freelance job after the "how much" talk.

It was a small company and they were very friendly so I started working on the software before we agreed on my salary

  1. They ask me how much do I want
  2. "Well I worked approximately X hours, so how about Y$"
  3. They answer: "we don’t want an hourly rate we want a number, how much would you sell the software to us."
  4. Me: "well how about Y/2?
  5. Them: "sorry we don’t have enough budget for this we will focus on other things for now"

Hint: there wasn’t a single update to their platform since a year (when this happened)

What I dislike the most about this is how they were waiting for me to cut my prices.