Okay, I’m officially pissed. I started working with someone a short while ago on an alleged charitable project. I volunteered my time, which turns out to be a good thing. This “client”, I just find out from some strenuous digging, has an arrest record and more than a few brushes with the law. I posted…
Temporary Highs
Over on Nikki’s blog, she laments the “freelance” part of our careers. As she puts it, it sometimes feels like a temping situation. In fact, she’s right – it is. Like I was saying before, nothing in this world is permanent anymore. We have offers from people who are dying to buy our services on…
When It’s Over
With Apologies to Sugar RayThere comes a time in any client-writer relationship when it’s time to say goodbye. In the best scenario, that’s when the project is completed and you both go about your business with hope that there will be future projects. In the worst scenario, that’s when you two have hit a roadblock…
Favorite Blogs
I’m too overworked to come up with anything beyond what I consider “release” links – funny or otherwise entertaining blogs that I turn to when my brain smells like burnt toast. Today’s that day, so here are a few I can’t live without: I Can Has Cheezburger: There’s something so hysterical about these photos and…
Job Listings – September 19, 2007
Improving Your Net WorthAs busy as I am, I’m a bit afraid to quit those lower-paying regular and semi-regular gigs. That’s because busy, in my experience, is temporary. However, there comes a time when we’re lucky enough to pick and choose. It’s not often, nor is it ever a permanent situation, but picky’s a damn…
Firing Clients From Hell
I can’t stop laughing – over on Rich McIver’s CRM weblog, Rich identifies our worst nightmares – varying degrees of the hellish client. What’s more, Rich tells us how to rid ourselves of those who mean to cause us undue stress. Samples include: the bargain shopper, the one who wants your home phone number, the…
The Reactionary Client
It happens – you come across a client who is wonderful in all ways … except there’s this tendency to overreact. I had one recently who was in danger of hyperventilating because of a minor miscommunication that put us back 6 hours on a project. Okay, you’re already over your time budget by an entire…
Hysterical Signs
or Why I Love My Hometown SpiritVisited Pittsburgh last weekend and while we were there, my daughter and I found ourselves outside Heinz Field just as the Pitt game was ending. As we walked toward the ticket office, we saw him standing across the street holding a cup in one hand and a sign in…
Absence Makes the Blog Heart Grow Fonder
Where IS everyone? I just went through my blog roll and I find that only a few are around blogging like mad, where many blogs lie dormant a week or more. Worse, a few have been deleted, which means that once again, I have to delete a link from the roll. I hate doing that….
Attention to Detail, Please
It’s hysterical – I’m in the middle of a test project and I’d sent a quick note to the project lead and asked if what I was attempting was okay, attaching the beginnings of my work. The note came back with all sorts of markups on the test. Only thing was the copy that was…