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ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
edited May 2012 in General Banter
Well look no further, why not become a dream interpretation expert and earn 40 pounds an hour LOL. This atricle is about lucid dreaming becoming popular, but in there is the ref to the point of this thread. 40 pounds an hour!! :screwy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18277074

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  • B5CB5C Veteran
    That is 60 BUCKS an hour!
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    That is 60 BUCKS an hour!
    Does that sound like a lot of money? It's not, for counselors, advisers, therapists, massage therapists who are self-employed, have a lot of overhead to pay, have to pay for their own health insurance and liability insurance, plus annual coursework to maintain their license.

  • ToshTosh Veteran
    edited May 2012
    Guys, if you're a self employed dream interpreter, you've got to charge a high hourly rate to earn a living. In my local area there's a breakfast club I've been invited to (I declined), but it's a bunch of local business people who meet together for breakie once-a-fortnight and talk about improving their businesses.

    I declined the offer because I don't think it would help me; I'm a window cleaner, and I can earn more than £40 an hour cleaning windows - but I don't clean windows every hour, hour-after-hour, because I have to travel to jobs, sort out equipment (it's not just a ladder and bucket these days; it's 'pure water cleaning systems' and 'high reach carbon fibre poles' and 'reverse osmosis filtration systems', and 'shurflow pumps with flow controllers'), and it's still hard work and I wouldn't want to do it hour-after-hour. About four-or-five hours on the glass does me; and that's a tough day.

    Anyway, at the breakfast club - so the organiser told me - was a psychic who does pretty well out of all whatever it is that psychics do.

    If you're self employed, you have to charge a good - high - hourly rate to survive in that business, but obviously, you charge 'per job', not for 'time' (if you can) and this translates as a good hourly rate.

    And as Dakini pointed out, there will be overheads you may not even think about, plus tax (the scoundrels), and you need to realise that even dream interpreters will get sick or need some time off - so they have to charge enough to cover that too; there's no holiday pay or sick pay when you're self employed.
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Lol!:)
  • AMHAMH
    I ran a small home daycare, under licensing guidelines, for a few years. The first family I undercharged and when I did taxes I was surprised at how much it was. I had to raise my rates, I was not high priced at all. Plus realizing the expenses of toys and crafty stuff. The parents were not happy but I had to do it. The next family was good friends and they had some issue with my rates but I stuck to it. I knew to do a good job I needed to plan for doign things with the kids and buying materials
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