Surviving the Workday

From Eight Violent Truths About Freelancing:

3. Freelancers Work For More Jerks Than Anyone Else.

Wait, What? I thought freelancers got to be their own bosses! How does that work?

It’s easy. It works like this:

1. Client provides project specs.
2. Freelancer completes and submits project.
3. Client changes specs.
4. Freelancer revises and resubmits project.
5. Client drops the order altogether, posts both sets of submissions anyways.
6. Freelancer finds new client.
7. Repeat.

Maybe #5 becomes “client doesn’t pay the invoice for 6 months” or “client offers half the original bid amount“, but you get the idea.

And that explains my jerk expertise. Feel free to ask any jerk-related questions. We’re talking about coworkers and colleagues of course. I don’t think Ms. Theologian has received any queries in a long time.

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