If you were a licenced insured EC business $300 a day would not be a proffit. It may pay 1 persons wadges with taxes. You would have about nothing for material mark-up. It would not pay a days overhead and it would be a loss not a profit. Don't quit your day job.
I agree this does hurt everyone in the trade by doing weekend side work. You make it hard for EC that play by the rules to compete. Would you like it if your boss told you "sorry your going to have to work for less $$ and on nights and weekends to maintain work"?
Maybe instead of doing the work on the weekend you could work out a refural agrement with an EC. So you could get paid lining up the work for them. Then they charge a normal price.
Tom
