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Work and Friends

I can actually say that I personally have never charged friends for helping them out or doing something for them.  Never have, never will!  That's just me!

I can say I have helped my son do jobs for friends when he has had to charge them for his services - when he needed the money.  Rightly and justly so - he needed to do so!  (This is not to say he has not helped me out when I needed money when I helped him do the work - he gave of HIS money) 

I have discovered that when you help a friend out and not charge them for your help you always are welcomed as a friend.  When you charge them a service fee you eventully become a contractor.  I would rather be a full-time friend than a part-time contractor.  Two distinctly different terms.

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