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		Aeolun on Nov 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just don’t You need clients that will allow you to be that for them. Sometimes they just want a really expensive code monkey. I’m not exactly sure why. Maybe paying hundreds of dollars an hour is a sort of status symbol?

yamtaddle on Nov 8, 2022 [–]

Raising rates seems to help. The more they're paying you, the more they're willing to listen, it seems. Though of course you can never completely escape bad clients.

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