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Reply To: | His reply: No. Have you read The Lazy Teenager by Virtual Reality?" < [log in to unmask]> |
Date: | Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:46:29 -0200 |
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'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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