[Jewelry making - Article 00439] - Re: [Orchid] The cost of holding out

[Jim Good]

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    This last line is from the nest message in the list.  And here are
    my "two cents" on the cost of holding out or selling short.  I am new
    to this list and the field of making jewelry. 

    As an employee of someone else (a worker for some company), you have
    every right (if that is a good choice of words) to completely forget
    about whatever you had been working on at the end of the day of
    shift.  You don't have to think about that task or event again until
    the next day.  You are paid for the time recorded on the company's
    (your employer's) time clock. 

    As a self-employed worker, either in a sole-proprietorship or
    partnership with one or two others, when does the "time on the
    clock" end? A client wants a specific design for a piece of jewelry
    and you make sketches during the rest of that day.  After you lock
    the door that night and are enjoying dinner an idea for the design
    comes to you.  A rough sketch on a napkin to be filled in later will
    have to do for now.  Do you charge the client for the dinner or for
    overtime used to finish the drawing and make a sample?  If the design
    is original, who would (or should) own any copyright?  If it is a
    good design other clients would probably like the option of buying
    one. 

    In a corporate environment (not related to the making of jewelry)
    certain levels of company leadership do allow themselves the option
    of passing ALL costs, including meals, to the end user of the product
    even though the meals in question are neither on company property nor
    "on the clock" for time billing records. 

    As I write this, more questions gone to mind that would be better
    answered by a small business attorney that is just as trusted (by
    you) in that field as you are in the field of making jewelry. 

    Thank each of you for the good information and leads. 
    Jim



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