FiChai

You can do volunteer work for charity or community organizations for free because they don't actually make monies. Ask yourself if you would do free work for any commercial company for they use your work and equipment to make monies. To me, on top of the camera equipment I am going to use, my time and labor and talent is being used too, I don't think I should deserve nothing, especially talking in commercial industry. That means, even I only use my iphone to shoot, I should still get a pay. Make sense?

FiChai

AAC is getting paid.  He/she is getting a salary.  You can argue it's not part of the original res ...
快樂牛郎 發表於 2011-11-20 17:44

If he is very willing to do so without a second thought, he wouldn't have to post it here to ask for opinions.

Yeah, since you get paid, your lovely boss may ask you to feed his meter, buy him coffee, pick his kids up at kindergarten, and clean his toilet bowl at home. If you are ok with that, of course there is nothing wrong.

FiChai

Actually it's a quite interesting matter to discuss. I can say it's about "self esteem" VS "cost of money". For example, to buy coffee and feed the meter for your boss, you have nothing to lose in terms of money (provided that your boss pays you the needed spare changes), but see if your self esteem allows you to do it comfortably. However, using your own camera equipment and shooting skills to work for a free job but actually your boss might get money return in his own pocket (not yours), and your gear might be put at risk on your own too, consider that any unexpected accident and failure may happen. But in return, you may feel proud because your gear and talent is admired by someone. There is no right or wrong, just depends on what type of person you are.