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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Too often people, particularly believers in DIY, ignore the non-hourly cost of labor. DIY (self-publishers?) tend to regard labor as free while others regard salaries as overhead rather than as a 'project' cost. Neither case is true-it's just that they're both difficult to reduce to 'hard' numbers.
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All to true...good self employed sorts understand the value of their time and can make decisions based on the effiency of DIY or just paying to have it done professionally. In another life I worte software for a living...still I knew that when I moved into netwrk troubleshooting and design it was cheaper and smarter for me to buy software for $500 to track my time, expenses and generate billing rathter than rolling my own over time.
I could earn more working with clients rather than spending 100's of hours slowly developing the code. Same for accounting software, though I once wrote my own word processor with a development kit from the OLD Borland.