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Ugh the place I do contract work for is absolutely pummelling me with new projects to take on. Looks like they've had some staff leave recently. No, I can't do your work full time. I feel bad for ignoring / rejecting the project offers but they are a stop-gap at the end of day, not my full-time gig. They definitely have enough work to hire someone with my experience full time, but it's cheaper to just use the contractor I guess. They also don't pay me nearly enough to take on the extra burden of their staff shortages.
I'm planning to use this situation to my advantage to get a better deal on fees, they obviously need me and I've been working for them long enough now to have some leverage. I've booked a call with the staff manager next week, let's see how we go! I'm becoming more ruthless in business by the day haha. But also, I need to earn the $$.
This is great leverage.
If they keep coming back despite you rejecting project work, that spells it out.
I can't imagine they'd knock back a 15-20% increase. I've been at places that have paid contractors $800 a day because they refused to hire in house talent.
I should note this was exclusively for project work.