Projects From Hell (and why you should be pickier)At the moment, I’m feeling the weight of an unending project bearing down on me. The clients want to see it completed. I want to see it completed. But it goes on and on…. and guess what? The amount of stress this project is causing is not…
Your Fluctuating CareerWhen your career has taken more turns than a taxi in Manhattan, you may not think anything of it to jump from one job to another. In fact, if you’re a freelancer, that’s part-and-parcel of your profession. However, there may come a time when you need to leave the freelancing behind either temporarily…
Unreliable Redux Yep, still sporting a bit of a head of steam over the nonpayment from a select few clients. For the record, I have a number of current clients who pay me on time and who get the best I can give them every time because of it. I have one client with whom…
Relying on the UnreliableThere’s one huge obstacle that is a constant threat to your freelance success – your clients. Strange, but true. The very folks who give you work and who rave about you to others are also the ones who don’t pay you on time (and in a few rare cases, not at all)…
Where is Fair?
Echoing yesterday’s theme, just where should you set your rate? How high is too high? How low is too low? Oddly, it’s not all that tough to figure out. Let me start with an example from personal experience. I had this client who needed a website revision. I gave him a price – a low…
Asking for the RaiseDoes anyone have an easy time asking the boss for a raise? As freelancers, we think we can avoid it because hey, we’re self employed! Ha. Self-employment is an illusion under which we work. No, dear writers. Whenever we want a raise, we are very much employees, but our boss is now…
Like Yesterday I was fine until a few moments ago, while listening to the radio, the station played U2’s “Peace on Earth” behind comments from people who were there that day. They described seeing the second plane hit, or they described seeing people jumping from either of the towers. They described all the emotion and…
But What About Her JOB?Warning – rant ahead. They’re bashing Katie Couric again. Awful. Boring. Dowdy. Oh no, they don’t mean her ability to perform in her new job. No, no. It would seem in that department, she did just fine. No, they’re talking about her wardrobe. That’s right, folks. The critics, who never opened…
Should I Pay or Should I Go?Raise of hands, please – how many of you have considered or even plunked down hard cash to “join” one of those job sites? Really? That many? I’d count, but my hand is up, too. It’s long been debated amongst us freelance types whether it’s worth it to pay…
Sometimes, You Just Can’t When do you know to let go of a deadline, or a project for that matter? When your stress level has hit the ceiling, or when despite your best efforts, you’re just not going to make the deadline. It happened to me. I’m still working on a huge project. It’s still…