Originally posted by: Raizinman
Many years ago, I had a job doing technical research. I had to search through tens of thousands of pages of documents and try and find certain technical references. Well, being the geekie type of guy I am, I stayed late one evening, and ran all the pages through a scanner and then processed it through an OCR program. No, they never thought of this as OCR programs were sort of new and not well received. Anyway, after having all this inforamtion in the computer, finding all the technical references took about an hour. The time limit on the job was listed: Until done. Well, what should I have done? Billed them 6 hours of actual time spent? Or estimated how much time it would have taken me had I done it their way, page by page. Well, to avoid getting flames, I won't divurge how much time I actually billed, but it was two of the best years I have ever had.
The kicker?! Because I did such a thorough job the first time, they hired me again to re-research the same documents looking now for other references. LOL