[BC] Making engineering pay

[JYRussell@academicplanet.com]

I knda like the "maintenance contract" if you can get it... set a fee for
coming in one day per month, and going after the list (which has been
prioritized and grown as you've done this over the last few months, starting
with the first trip in)

    Emergency trips outside the scheduled hours are quite a bit higher...
usually charged by the hour from start of the day, including drive time,
plus mileage, etc.

   Not punitive, but expensive enough to keep the
'not-really-such-an-emergency' calls down to 'real emergencies'...

Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Meuser" <Robertm at broadcast.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Making engineering pay


> 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.
> >
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