rating and reviewing as paid work - the earner's side of it
What rating pays, and how the money reaches you
The trade seen from the side that gets paid: what the work is worth, how pricing goes, and what running it properly involves.
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A normal first month is quieter than you expect
Judging the trade by month one is like judging a shop by the morning it opened, except that almost everybody does it.
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Which unit you sell in changes what you optimise
The choice between an hourly rate and a price per job is not administrative. It decides who carries the risk of the work taking longer than expected.
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Keep five things from every job
The records that matter are small, and the reason to keep them always arrives months after the moment you could have.
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The price gap is not about talent
Two people doing what looks like the same job can be paid very differently, and almost none of the gap is explained by the quality of the assessment.
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Build the rate card from your numbers, not the market's
The point of a rate card is not to publish a price. It is to make every individual pricing conversation already settled.
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Nobody books the person with no history
Your first month is not a test of the work. It is a test of whether you can survive having no evidence.
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Four things a buyer looks for, in order
A profile is read in about the time it takes to decide against it, which makes the order of what you say more important than the amount.