Thread: how much do you charge your friends?

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Friends don't ask for favors, they exchange them evenly. I have two older friends who've helped me out quite a bit. It has been hard to find what I can do to recipricate! So I pay them, or buy lunch etc.. These are my old fishing buddies. Their stories are the best of all! What I won't ever do is ask for a favor without offering fair compensation!
True friends understand this, the user friends don't. Great sorting tool. Plus think of all the extra time you'll have if he's not hanging around taking you away from your paying customers!

"friends don't ask friend for favors"

That is the way I feel too. I believe everybody deserves to make their wages whenever they are using their job skills. I melted a couple of 220 breakers in my shop panel and I am having a friend replace the entire panel tommorrow. He works at the University as an electrician. I told him I supply all of the materials and tools and would pay his regular union scale wages per hour and buy he and his family dinner tomorrow as his "benefits" package. He tried to say he'd "just do me a favor" but finally agreed. I think that is a fair agreement don't you? I wish my other "friend" felt the same way about my labor.