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Originally Posted by opendoor
Also, I wouldn't get too hung up on hourly rates if you're just learning still. When people pay someone a shop rate of $50-100 there's the expectation that the person can produce work at the speed of a professional. They're not going to want to pay someone less experienced for 3 hours when they could pay a pro for 1 hour to get similar results.
Speed will come with time, so you might have to take less per hour now. But with experience you'll get better and faster so you can make more money. If you're getting paid for work while still learning you're already way ahead of a lot of people.
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Do a little math. We all know that everyone on CP makes $100,000 per year. So let's say that the people you know make $150 per design. So either the people you know have over 600 clients that have endless work and pump out 3 new designs per day (this is assuming the people you know never take a day off ever) or the people you know live in their parents basement and don't pay rent. This also must assume that the people you know have no business expenses at all?
Must be one hell of a labour of love for these people you know?
Well that is assuming that they don't own a printing service and hide the design work in the printing costs. That could never happen.