I was called out to a job to fix an electrical issue with a piece of earth moving equipment. It was as simple as metering everything out, replacing a deutsch pin, and swapping a new weatherseal plug. Anyone should be able to do this easily, but go ahead pay me my minimum 6 hour $200 call out rate.
While I was there, the geologists were having trouble with their equipment. Never have I used geological equipment before, but figured I'd give it a shot. Once again, a simple electrical issue figured out within minutes combined with the "user error" of a supposed university trained geologist.
Ate people just fucking stupid now? I can literally show up and troubleshoot equipment that I've never seen in my life and have no idea what it does better than people who spent $60k at university learning how to use it.
As long as these bastards keep paying me, it's going to ease the actual physical pain it causes my brain to be around people so stupid.
HeyJames 1 points 9 months ago
200/hr is pretty decent. My competition charges about 150.