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April 19, 2012 at
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Looking for opinions:
If you have a specific skill or trade do you feel it's okay with charging immediate family members for your labor/time. For example, if you are a mechanic, would you charge your son or daughter, father or mother for your labor? Or do you feel like since they're your family (and let's of course say for arguments sake that everyone likes each other and has a good relationship of course
) you should give your help where you're able to and leave it up to the person on the receiving end to give if they should feel inclined?
If you have a specific skill or trade do you feel it's okay with charging immediate family members for your labor/time. For example, if you are a mechanic, would you charge your son or daughter, father or mother for your labor? Or do you feel like since they're your family (and let's of course say for arguments sake that everyone likes each other and has a good relationship of course
) you should give your help where you're able to and leave it up to the person on the receiving end to give if they should feel inclined?
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Basically, if it costs anything for a family member to help you or puts them out in any way they SHOULD be compensated accordingly. Or do you expect him to just fork over free parts and labor because you're his kid? Maybe you aren't ahead of a paying customer but the time he spends on your car could still be spent on a FULL paying customer. Get it??
Your parents are only responsible for you until you turn 18. I sincerely hope yours will all their money away to charity!
Nothing, I just picked different countries, that is all
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they probably have great scratch and dent specials!!
So Pig is saying her father, her mechanic is not honest
Yesterday and last night, hubby and I spent our time, mind you hubby worked a 12 hr day; and helped out a "dear friend" - to get his truck back up and running. It was raining out; he needed to get to the bank, get the part needed, ensure we had the correct part. I was "his driver" to do all of this; ran into all types of road construction during "rush hour". Got him back to his vehicle, and had him remove the bolts to this part; to double check if we had one of two parts (as there were two different models of this part) to ensure we had the correct one. The Parts store closed at 9pm, it was 8:15pm, when we discovered they gave us the correct box, with the incorrect part in it
Got back with the correct part, and there is my hubby on the ground in the rain, replacing this part for "our dear friend", with no complaints on our part whatsoever - including all the running involved.
Once we all got home, and we didn't eat hubby and I until 9:30pm or later that evening; we got a text from our friend thanking us profusely for both of our help. That was all we needed from him, nothing more; and he knew that. Now had it been some certain family members, nope, we would not have gone through all of that trouble
News flash - just because you are the child of someone who owns a business does NOT entitle you to "freebies" - who taught you that you were "entitled" to this OP
OP we are 24/7 care givers as well for my FIL - so time is very precious to us - as you state you will care for your father in his aging days - I'm highly doubting that by your current statements. You feel "entitled" to free services, because he is in this line of work. We have never felt we were "entitled" to free services from any family member, no matter what type of field they were in. We might have traded off services with each other, but never did we feel were were "entitled" to something free, just because they knew how to do something we did not.
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You never answered the question as to what skills or marketable skills you are able to return to your own family - is there none
If I want my Nephew who is excellent in IT to do work on my Computer(s); we'll trade off on vehicle repair work. What do you have to offer back to your F-A-T-H-E-R in lieu of payment for repairs