On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:04:06PM -0500, Kath wrote: > This year I'll be graduating high school. For the past year, I have been >sysadmining the linux server and doing a variety of other tasks, including the >website (Which includes HTML/PHP/MySQL). > > Now that I'm gonna be gone, should I ask to be compensated for continuing the >maintence on the server and site and any other future servers they might want? What >would be a fair rate to charge? Should it be a salary or per hour deal? > > Thanks, > Kath Well, it sounds like you *want* to be compensated, and so you should definately ask - most likely they are not going to suddenly volunteer to pay you. Make sure you have a good game plan: try and make some estimates of the amount of time you have spent on the server, what kind of maintainence it is likely to need in the next year, what will happen if it isn't maintained. State your hourly rate - I'd suggest asking a few consultants in the area, and make sure you are substantially (but not ridiculously) lower than that rate. Quote both rates to them. If they aren't too keen Plan B could be to be paid to train a new sysadmin, and do emergency fallback maintainence for a few months. My boyfriend was the second sysadmin at a residential college, after the first, who built it, and maintained it, moved overseas. The first sysadmin got paid as a teacher/maintainer for a few months. (My boyfriend, incidently, had 25% of his residents fees in lieu of payment, which was pretty good at the time.) Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
