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> You can still throw 3 hours per day at a client, and the next 3 hours of that same day at another client; all you have to do is be honest with yourself about how you're doing. And again: part of the terms of a day rate is, you get to round up.

Can you explain more clearly what you mean by "be honest with yourself about how you're doing"?

If you work 3 hours one day and 3 hours the next day, are you charging 2 days, or do you consolidate it into 1?

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If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and 3 hours the next and then I'm done, I bill one day.

If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, I bill one day.

If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, and then the client asks me to build a Bar widget and I work 3 hours the next day and then I'm done, I might bill 1 day or I might bill 2, depending on the relationship. This doesn't come up much.

If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day and then I'm done, and then a week later the client asks me to build a Bar widget and I work 3 hours next week and then I'm done, I bill 2 days.

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I missed the "If I am building a Foo widget and I work 3 hours one day, 3 hours the next and 3 hours the next and then I'm done, I bill ¿?."

One or two days? :) It depends on the client?

You've put more than 1 standard 8-hour work day of effort into the project. If you round up, you have two days.

Although it's too close to one day, that it might be a bit unethical to say it were two...

Then do that.

I'd probably bill 1 day if I did the work in dribs and drabs over 3 days and the total number of hours I spent were closer to 1 day than 2. You know how you'd feel if you worked 3 hours a day for 3 days: not like a superhero.

I don't know, this has just never happened with me.

Thanks ;)

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