In the middle of
this I got distracted by remembering that I was going to "pay" myself $15/hour in the project manager, to get some idea of what the real hours
are "worth" as real work in the real world, although obviously if I were getting paid professionally for most of this I'd be making at least
three times that.
Get a load of this logic from JOHN HENRY DEJONG:
"Yeaaaaaaaah, this is just right. Probably won't be anything coming out tonight directly, although if you're paying attention to the supporters portal you'll see new projects appearing in the menu as I get them and
the pages for them created in the system, but this is definitely the way
I wanted things to work. Little slow and grinding gears on startup, but
we'll get there.
There really are some big and productive ideas behind
all of this, but I feel a lot of anxiety about how well I'm able to communicate them to the world outside my head. It's coming together
though. I know, every half-witted grifting jerk on the planet who
thinks they have an idea is always saying that, but we're here and at
that moment.
I often find myself thinking "if y'all could just see what
I'm doing," but that's the whole reason I put that portal up - so people could see, to some extent at least, what I'm doing.
In the middle of
this I got distracted by remembering that I was going to "pay" myself $15/hour in the project manager, to get some idea of what the real hours
are "worth" as real work in the real world, although obviously if I were getting paid professionally for most of this I'd be making at least
three times that. The first image (953) is what I've got into "Too
Long, Didn't Read" since I started tracking the project. The next (834)
is what putting up the supporter's portal "cost" me. The third (353) is *just* the media asset management tool, as a separate cost within that
portal project. The white on brown number is the total value of the
work I've tracked in the project manager since I started using it in May...and I've been SUPER sloppy about keeping track of my time, in part exactly because I wasn't putting a dollar value on it.
This doesn't
report directly/automagically through the project reporting tool, but
it's an interesting metric. I'm going to get more religious about making
sure I'm tracking my time accurately with this tool - it has a literal
time clock I can punch - so I can be more clear about what my work is
worth just as work per se, aside from ideological or other
bias-dependent values.
Question is....hm. Right now, these numbers,
that's all based on $15 an hour, but that's nowhere near reasonable or
fair for even the most basic of the work I'm doing. For the sake of not getting ratholed on it, I'm gonna call 30 fair - like I said a lot of
this work is 90K+ easy even in southwest MI, but also I have to do a lot
of work like filling out these forms that would pay less than that by a
fair piece, so I think 30/hour is a good compromise. That's only 60K a
year, which is entry-level wages for someone with my skills and
experience in any of the jobs I do as part of this - an insult in some
of them.
So for now double these numbers and as I get into more
consistently using this thing (note the date, August 14) I'll use that
$30 and everything will be based around that."
OMFG.
John is now paying hiself imaginary dollars for imaginary work. Let's
hope the money is coming from the imaginary sheep.
This is like saying you have a dog worth a thousand dollars because you traded two cats you valued at 500 each for it.
Anyone ever wonder why this mooch is always broke?
Davey Zimmerman #274 <Chadweasel274@zoho.com> wrote:
Get a load of this logic from JOHN HENRY DEJONG:
"Yeaaaaaaaah, this is just right. Probably won't be anything coming
out tonight directly, although if you're paying attention to the
supporters portal you'll see new projects appearing in the menu as I
get them and the pages for them created in the system, but this is
definitely the way I wanted things to work. Little slow and grinding
gears on startup, but we'll get there.
There really are some big and productive ideas behind
all of this, but I feel a lot of anxiety about how well I'm able to
communicate them to the world outside my head. It's coming together
though. I know, every half-witted grifting jerk on the planet who
thinks they have an idea is always saying that, but we're here and at
that moment.
I often find myself thinking "if y'all could just see what
I'm doing," but that's the whole reason I put that portal up - so
people could see, to some extent at least, what I'm doing.
In the middle of
this I got distracted by remembering that I was going to "pay" myself
$15/hour in the project manager, to get some idea of what the real
hours are "worth" as real work in the real world, although obviously
if I were getting paid professionally for most of this I'd be making
at least three times that. The first image (953) is what I've got
into "Too Long, Didn't Read" since I started tracking the project.
The next (834) is what putting up the supporter's portal "cost" me.
The third (353) is *just* the media asset management tool, as a
separate cost within that portal project. The white on brown number
is the total value of the work I've tracked in the project manager
since I started using it in May...and I've been SUPER sloppy about
keeping track of my time, in part exactly because I wasn't putting a
dollar value on it.
This doesn't
report directly/automagically through the project reporting tool, but
it's an interesting metric. I'm going to get more religious about
making sure I'm tracking my time accurately with this tool - it has a
literal time clock I can punch - so I can be more clear about what my
work is worth just as work per se, aside from ideological or other
bias-dependent values.
Question is....hm. Right now, these numbers,
that's all based on $15 an hour, but that's nowhere near reasonable
or fair for even the most basic of the work I'm doing. For the sake
of not getting ratholed on it, I'm gonna call 30 fair - like I said a
lot of this work is 90K+ easy even in southwest MI, but also I have
to do a lot of work like filling out these forms that would pay less
than that by a fair piece, so I think 30/hour is a good compromise.
That's only 60K a year, which is entry-level wages for someone with
my skills and experience in any of the jobs I do as part of this - an
insult in some of them.
So for now double these numbers and as I get into more
consistently using this thing (note the date, August 14) I'll use
that $30 and everything will be based around that."
OMFG.
John is now paying hiself imaginary dollars for imaginary work. Let's
hope the money is coming from the imaginary sheep.
This is like saying you have a dog worth a thousand dollars because
you traded two cats you valued at 500 each for it.
Anyone ever wonder why this mooch is always broke?
Be fair. Since starting this “work” John has been promoted and
doubled his imaginary hourly rate. At this rate, he’ll be on at
least 240 imaginary dollars an hour by the end of the year.
And I for one, reckon that’s precisely what he’s worth…
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