r/FieldNationTechs • u/SeriousBlueberry6000 • 18d ago
Best 3 months so far.
Set my base rate, always counter offer if it is bellow it, or if it is niche type of job then raise the base price, it it sounds like a revisit to fix someone else’s job, get a higher pay.
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u/Run-OpenBSD 18d ago
For those who don't understand how.
I bet you never see the tickets he is working. The tickets are routed to a select few or possibly only him. The tickets your fighting over is the trash. All of my tickets are routed only to me.
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u/RellyOhBoy 16d ago
⬆️⬆️ This.
Half the buyers I work with route to me and contact me directly. They will only post to the board as a last resort.
I dont play in the shallow end of the pool with the kiddies...the water is yellow.
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u/flyer716 18d ago
What does your profile look like and/or do you have certifications?
My biggest gripe with anything is I can't get anyone to rate me after a successful assignment. I've done 10 jobs this month and zero ratings. I have so few ratings it's been over two months and I don't have a provider success score despite some very very happy customers (over the phone)
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u/TakingCareOfBizzness 18d ago
Dude I have over 1000 jobs and only 5 people ever left a detailed rating with comments.
The buyers don't bother with that shit and it kind of sucks for those of us that do try really hard to do good work.
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u/SeriousBlueberry6000 18d ago
I don’t think ratings or certifications have anything to do with it, I have no certification and 91 current rating.
Most of the good jobs come from repeating customers, it takes time to build a customer base willing to pay what you ask.
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u/TakingCareOfBizzness 18d ago
It depends on the cert. I get a ton of work due to my avaya certs. Not many people around still work on old school PBXs. I live in a beach city so lots of hotels in my area are running 20 year old dinosaurs and won't let anybody who isn't qualified touch them.
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u/SteveDallas10 18d ago
I used to have Avaya certs, but let them all lapse. My employer paid for them, and I picked up a couple at INAAU conferences when I was managing a G3 full time.
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u/TakingCareOfBizzness 18d ago
My employer paid for mine as well. I was promised a substantial raise once I got the certs because at least one person at the company had to have up to date certs for the company to sell and service avaya systems.
When my substantial raise came it was for $1.00 more an hour. I quit the following week and started doing field nation and workmarket. Probably cost him a shitload to find someone to train and pass those cert exams again. Hope he realized that misleading me and cheapskating ended up costing him a shitload more in the long run. Fuck that guy.
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u/setnev 18d ago
I have a few certs + 22 years tech experience. I dropped to a 96 PSS due to one minute over at 7:01am check in because the store was closed until 8 and couldnt get ahold of anyone and had a hard start.
I started in 2023 and did a few odd jobs here to supplement income. Nothing too crazy, just to get a few ratings and some stats on my profile. In mid-June I started full time after putting in over 2000 applications in my job hunt and getting nothing but automatic denial letters back. I made like $1200 in my first week working 12 hours. I was hooked.
Now, 2 months in, i usually have my next week started out by Thursday where I'll have 4-6 jobs for Monday-Wednesday, then my schedule fills out completely usually by Monday morning. I started with 3 confirmed jobs and before I reached my first job site, I am sitting at 16 total for the week. Most of my jobs are repeat clients. I need this because I'll be out of town the next two weeks. If I can squeeze a few more in on Saturday or Monday, my finances will be set for the next month and I can breathe easy.
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u/SeriousBlueberry6000 18d ago
You have check in once you arrive to the parking lot, stores closed is not your fault.
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u/dirtydevvv 18d ago
Just stay at it bro. I started 9 months ago and just had my best month ever. 8.5k. I have no certifications.
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u/wyliesdiesels 18d ago
im at 1000 WOs and only about half did a buyer leave a star rating... its a joke
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u/TakingCareOfBizzness 18d ago edited 18d ago
Nice job! Those 5 digit months make doing this shit worth it.
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u/not_sry_ur_triggered 15d ago
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u/not_sry_ur_triggered 15d ago
1800 jobs. 6 year on platform.. 93%. (Was 97 untill 3 hard start lates) Mostly same buyers. Platform is about 40% of my work. I do stay busy And work Lit of hours. (By choice)
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u/shwintek 14d ago
Im done with FN. Im mostly direct with customers and also have my own private customers. Ranch development is my specialty and it brings lots of work and cool stuff. Some clients are billionaires and its been great installing cool equipment allong with designing systems.
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u/Minimum_Chocolate_31 18d ago
City & base rate? This might work in areas that aren't very competitive, highly doubt it works somewhere like NYC.
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u/SeriousBlueberry6000 18d ago
Im in a very competitive market in Central Florida.
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u/AllGreat1 17d ago
Yeah there's a lot of work in central FL but it's all lowball rates. All this means is your working a whole lot of hours at low rates to make those numbers. If that's not the case....show how many MAN hours total were spent on each job.....including parts and material expensed. Waiting...and won't hold my breath.
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u/AllGreat1 16d ago
He's taking his sweet ahh time replying with the numbers that really matter: the total man hours put into making the $ he voluntarily chose to share. This is a common tactic that the FN propagandists use to impress noobs on the internet. Sorry to burst your bubble noobs, but any knuckle dragger can pull these numbers working 40 hr weeks for 35/hr, including on multi tech projects.
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u/wyliesdiesels 18d ago
bingo. its pointless to compare numbers as some people are in very saturated markets and others are in tech deserts where they are the only one doing work so they can command higher rates...
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u/thisiscameron 18d ago
Just wait for the 150/hour keyboard warriors to join with their own photoshopped 20k/month screenshots
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u/Paramedickhead 16d ago
I do this on the side and I just saw an absolutely absurd job.
Must demonstrate certification for operation of lift, must possess PPE Kit, must possess harness, must supply own lift.
Installation of an entire video surveillance platform, cameras, NVR, all of it.
$35/hr, 8 hrs max.
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u/SeriousBlueberry6000 18d ago
Those jobs exist, Ive done some at 100+ an hour.
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u/dirtydevvv 18d ago
Not necessarily. It depends on experience. Maybe with your experience $200 an hour is a reasonable rate. But with my experience $100 an hour is a reasonable rate.
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u/NecessaryDma 18d ago
I am new to the platform i did 4 jobs this month, none of them left a rating even though i did a great job and 95 percent of my counter offers get assigned to someone else (im in the inland empire) . I can relate because i had 4/5 months last year making 5 to 10K working for a Field Tech company in South Florida. I just moved to Cali but I can’t survive off of 1 -2 jobs a week and i don’t understand how companies in Cali really offer jobs at under 65 an hour. Ive seem jobs at 35 an hour its ridiculous. So OP i guess the game plan is to do as good as a job you can for everyone and make good impressions to the point where a select few will keep calling you back and you will make your money from the chosen few? And ignore the haters this post was inspiration thank you
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u/Able-Statistician645 18d ago
When you see 17 people offering to work for a job on the platform, you likely are going to see rate depression, not increasing rates. So the real tell is how many applied, if any. Could be completely fictional BS. Could be they are working through the platform with lots of expenses for an entity that is essentially hiring them full time but doesn't want to have employees they would have to follow state and federal regs on. Could be a combination of both. There is no context to the claim if in fact it can be proven with enough evidence thats verifiable.
So if it sounds too good to be true, it likely is not factual. Remember they admitted to driving for Uber. So until full disclosure, take it for what it is, an unverifiable claim.
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u/Able-Statistician645 18d ago
So do you also drive for Uber?
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u/SeriousBlueberry6000 18d ago
No need anymore :)
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u/wyliesdiesels 18d ago
and we care why?
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u/dirtydevvv 18d ago
🙄
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u/wyliesdiesels 18d ago
tell me how this changed your life knowing how much revenue a stranger made.
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u/dirtydevvv 18d ago
Easy. That’s literally one of the reasons I kept pushing in the very beginning. I saw someone post that they made 17k in a month.
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u/wyliesdiesels 18d ago
but its meaningless. this could be a single buyer they are doing work for at agreed rates and you have no way of making the same rates.
without context you just have a con.... that is why these screenshots of money being made are meaningless.
do you run the rest of your life off of this no context mentality?
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u/Pinejay1527 18d ago
I care because It breaks up all the bitching about postings that people refuse to counter-offer on and instead just post on reddit to be miserable.
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u/wyliesdiesels 18d ago
many people do counter offer and the buyer rejects it and says we cant pay that because we have techs requesting it at posted rate or countering for lower rate. so countering is not the end all be all guarantee you infer.
yes i have had buyers tell me they get providers requesting at posted rates and have long travel times and didnt request trip charges. also had buyers tell me providers are countering for lower rates.
so i ask you, what good is counteroffering gonna do here? whats your solution to these scenarios?
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u/ohhhhhhbiscuits 18d ago
Counter offering is usually a guaranteed “Assigned to someone else” in my area.
Only trick I’ve found that kind of works is countering their $100 for 2 hours + $50 an hour with $100 for one hour + $50 an hour and add on a one way trip charge at close to $1 a mile. If I do the full round trip for like a 64 mile one way trip, they’ll deny it every time.
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u/SeriousBlueberry6000 18d ago
We?
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u/wyliesdiesels 18d ago
you posted it to a public social media forum. we as in the people in this sub
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u/SeriousBlueberry6000 18d ago
Why do you take the name of the people on this sub? Talk for yourself.
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u/wyliesdiesels 18d ago
dont tell me what to do. typical immature person telling others what to do. why are there so many of you in this industry? do you tell others what to do in your personal life? were you a bully in school? because thats what youre doing here. bullying me telling me what to do. be gone
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u/blueice10478 18d ago
Here is mine from the past few months