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How much time should a consultant bill for waking up at 3:00 am and doing 5 or 10 minutes of work?

Recently, I've been doing a lot of production support that requires off-hour work. Recently, I've been asked a couple of times to get up at 3:00 am and check the status of our data, which only takes 5 ...
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Freelancer - Proof of work hours

How do you document or proof the hours you were coding when on an hourly paid freelance job? I normally use timesheets for in-house consulting, but if a customer would question the billed hours that ...
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As a freelance web developer, should I bill for my learning curve?

I am developing a project for a client where I have a little bit of experience in a particular clientside framework - however not that much. There are times I have to go off and spend anywhere from 10 ...
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How should I [ethically] divide my billable time, when my work is mutually beneficial to multiple customers?

Consider the circumstance where someone works for multiple customers and charges them on an hourly rate. This is pretty common. However, how should an hourly, contractual worker bill their customers ...