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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