Run Away.
One day I swear I just want to pack up this family of 3 and disappear. Today I was deleting the umpteen junk emails that I get every morning and I was going through them so fast that I accidentally deleted a client email. I tried to recover it but my computer only brought up the junk I had just deleted. Poof - it was gone and I had to ask them to resend it. There in that moment I thought “really... is this really the sort of crap I want to waste even 5 minutes of my life on?”
I wanted to put my head down on my desk and piss the rest of the day off. Something’s gotta give. I spend hours every week emailing people files they, for whatever reason didn’t save last time they had them. Or fixing mistakes on websites that clients so eagerly wanted to be able to edit them selves but they f*** them up. Which I can’t let go... I can’t say “oh well, their fault.” Those sites are a reflection of me when potential clients are peeping my past work.
Oh and let’s talk about what people like to PAY for a minute! Nothing. They want to have their cake and eat it too! Well kick rocks ass holes! I had a lawyer once tell me that $500 was a lot of money for full branding. What he was asking me to do was about 30 hours of work. That’s only $16 per hour - BEFORE TAX. And I have business expenses just like everyone else! All said and done I would only MAKE. PROFIT. HAVE IN MY POCKET... $12 per hour IF everything went smoothly and he liked my 1st or 2nd prototype. Mind you he charges upwards of $200 per hour. Maybe I should have said it would be $6,000 - since you know, that’s what he would charge for his time. Just WHAT. THE. FUCK. I went to school too buddy. I have a skill set that you don’t. KICK ROCKS.
Another lady, owned a yoga studio. Wanted full rebranding done. The works. ANNND a booklet, business cards, decals, flyers. We’re talking 80 hours of work. She wanted to pay me $250 to do all of it. She should have said “come here darling...” then punched me in the face with brass knuckles. I would have been less hurt.
