[lifeisstillgood]

Yes, always :-)

You are a talented, experienced developer, whose work provides value to the company. That value is reflected in your costs.

If you are valuable, then you are valuable even if only contracted for an hour. Then its up to the client to ask for more hours.

If you are not valuable, you are not valuable even for an hour.

This does fall over a little if there are specific projects / actions the client wants - which is why automating the last contract so it becomes a simple function call for the next is always a good idea.