It kind of sucks how in all of the threads like this the experienced and established people always try to step in muscle out the new person. If you're so successful and awesome then you don't need yet MORE extra work, right? The "i'm just trying to help people out" facade when youre directly competing with the person in question isn't really believable. There was a point where you were making $20-25 an hour too, even if it was reflected in a full-time salary instead of contracting wages.
Were you a complete disaster who fucked up every project and churned out tons of broken shit people regretted having you write? There are rates which are pure bullshit, like $10/hr to have some guy in a teepee in kashmir write you stuff, but $25/hr for a person new to the community without a whole lot of experience who isn't claiming to be yahoo's chief architect isn't undercutting you or taking away your business. In some parts of the country $25/hr is a damn good living. If you really believe in the quality of your work and the worthness of your rates and you're that bigtime, let it all speak for itself. Turning it into a dickwaving thread because a new guy with less experience is looking to do work cheaper than you is a weak thing to do.
