On 1/21/07 5:46 AM, "Gabriel Orgrease" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> c,
> 
> 'reasonable working schedule'
> 
> It depends on the perspective but Pyrate's schedule is reasonable when
> you consider what a freelance contractor has to go through in order to
> get work, get it done, and get paid.
> 
> First off you have to bid as much work as you can attract which usually
> is more work than you could ever do if you ever got all of it. But you
> never get all of it, you hope. In fact sometimes you can spend
> months/years working on getting a project then not only not get it, but
> not get most everything else that you may have bid on. What you do get
> usually you bid on then wait for a whole hell of a long time w/ nobody
> telling you anything as to if the project will happen or not or if you
> are even considered for it. Or the project you had all your hopes on
> they give to someone else but forget to tell you and you have to hustle
> to take on bread n' butter work. Then suddenly the client you expected
> never to hear from again (usually within fifteen minutes right after you
> give up and throw the file in the trash) calls up and wants to get
> started yesterday. That is fine but suddenly hell is freezing over or a
> hurricane is coming or airplanes go wild and you have to figure out how
> to balance your resources in order not only to meet the multiple human
> expectations of a variety of clients who all have different ideas about
> what you should do with your time and an incredible ineptitude in
> telling you up front what those ideas are but also deal w/ the nasty
> weather, that your workforce evaporated behind you because they could
> wait no longer or as in some cases they went to jail or detox or Jamaica
> or started a business to compete with you, or outside forces like the
> ever benevolent government suck all your working capital away in massive
> hemmorages, or that partner you just hitched up to form an alliance with
> on a project walks off with all the money, and you need to borrow up to
> your gonads in order to stay, as they say, afloat. Then you find
> sometimes it is just as much hassle to get paid as it was to do the
> work. If you put a whole bunch of factors like that, which is called
> 'contracting' together then Pyrate's schedule appears incredibly
> reasonable because at least he has one.
> 
> ][<
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