Well, this weekend I'm particular happy. A private equity guy in NY paid me $150 an hour to 'learn PHP immediately and fix his site.' He paid me for all 48 hours because he assumed 'I ate, drank, are his job the whole weekend.' I told him it was too much, I usually charge $100 an hour. He said he hopes I'll be available whenever he needs me. Best believe I will.
Reminds me of a time I was Skyped at 4 AM by a previous client who needed my help. Told him it was 4 AM in my timezone and I was well past when I needed to sleep. Offered an hour at double my usual rate for 10 minutes of work, you bet I was wide awake.
Yeah, in my case, ithe work was very very simple. Slightly tedious because I had to type up lookup tables, but once I familiarized myself with php, it didn't take 5 hours.
