[BC] Making engineering pay

[Robert Meuser]

Radio as a hobby can be fun. It removes one from day to day stress and permits 
doing only the projects that please them.  That being said, if the person doing 
this is doing it at depressed rates, he is driving the overall market down. If 
the person is doing this part time work as a few hours for a decent wage, then 
that is a whole different discussion. For contract part time work you should be 
asking at the very least $40 per hour and more like $50-70 or a set number of 
hours for a monthly fee. If one is setting the floor for the market, it is a 
disservice to all.

R

Wade Giddens wrote:
>
> I've known of at least on radio station engineer who did it as a second 
> job.  He made his living at his main job and did broadcast engineering 
> on the side.  He was good at diagnosing and fixing equipment problems.  
> I know of several people who worked in radio (not engineering) full-time 
> in the past, who now work another main job and work in radio on the side.
>