Garden landscaper offer ok or rather totally exaggerated?

How is someone supposed to guess that when they are asked for a counteroffer? - then just ask directly: this is how much the colleague wants, is he greedy or would you have to charge about the same?

I don’t send a redacted list without comment but of course call them first and openly explain my thoughts. For example, that my site manager looked at the offer and said it was outrageously overpriced. Sometimes I also mentioned the total price. But no matter which way you approach it, it’s generally difficult. One person has now gotten back to me and said I should lay the electrical cables and the lines for the future irrigation myself in advance, then he could carry out the rest. What that would cost, we didn’t get that far, because this approach doesn’t help me. I’d end up tangled with dozens of individual trades and afterwards it would be a huge mess, no one knows where anything is and so on......

11ant if he were to work 10 hours every Saturday for 1 year on the outdoor area, that would be 520 hours and still no end in sight. Not feasible. Ok then he has 4 years of a permanent construction site - if that’s what he wants.

In addition, the robber might be physically able to do it, but
- he has no idea
- he wouldn’t have time for his daughter (yes, children like to help, but never for long)
- he will probably earn more per hour than the landscaper charges.

Garden area without experience, with demands and money in reserve - hands off

There are plenty of garden maintenance and small jobs on the house, and the robber can find tasks there that he enjoys and that relax him mentally.

- he will probably earn more per hour than the landscape gardener charges.

Certainly in the job, but rather not in rehab – and the "classic" self-performance discussion is not the issue in this particular case.

Burnout involves more than just a lot of work.

Burnout involves more than just a lot of work

Yes. For example, requesting plans before hammering a nail into the wall -- commissioning a lighting planner for a lamp shopping list -- creating a specification for a cabinetmaker -- believing in compensation through jogging. Each individually harmless, but together no longer.

to hire a lighting designer for a lamp shopping list

If it is not included in the architect's scope of services, there is hardly anything else one can do. Or am I supposed to have clairvoyance about how many recessed lights are needed on the ceiling to achieve a harmonious lighting and how to even create a lighting concept with the products currently available on the market? It is already strange that customers practically swarm the two lighting designers I have dealt with, so that you have to wait weeks for an appointment each time. All losers? All people on the verge of psychiatric care? That’s nonsense.