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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Savoring my second pot of pu-er tea to celebrate being jobless, and trying to keep up with this thread  |
heh, good luck with that last bit !
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Zelda, the market seems in much better shape now so I don't think finding the next contract should be a problem. I hope I don't find one too soon, because I have a very long list of things to do, and I'd like to take it easy for a few days too  I feel a bit guilty because I just left in the middle of the project I was working on, but also happy that I'm free-lance and don't have to take s**t if I don't want to. Other people on the project don't have that freedom and had to stay and take it.
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you're right, the market seems to be doing almost shockingly well right now. it's a big change from a few months ago ; i spent all winter putting ads in professional sites and panicking because i had practically no new work at all coming in. now i'm wondering if there is any possible way i can fit in a new project alongside my FOUR currently in-progress ones, especially since the project is "urgent" and needs to be online by mid-november (it's a project i would usually count 3 months for, so twice the time allowed).
i will have to make a quotation for the potential client and i'm really tempted to make it a bit high just so she won't choose me (because of course, in addition to giving not nearly enough time, also she has not much money.
). i would never have expected this rush in january. about 70% of my earnings for 2009 were billed between july and august ! of course, i still have a deficit overall for the year to date but luckily it's shrinking...
i know just what you mean, it is one of the best things about being freelance, knowing you are not stuck with the evil clients from hell.
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About quotations, I don't make them as a free-lance because I bill strictly by the day, but I worked in several IS companies, and normally a quotation should be accompanied by a description of the work that will be done: ideally it should be a document written by the client (cahier des charges), but if there is no such document you should write that description yourself. In theory everything that is added or changed in the initial requirements should be charged separately. Of course, in practice it's all a question of commercial negotiation and power balance...
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too true.
grr. i hate writing cahier des charges, and usually when i'm working on a project alone (without a project manager) i have to do them, the clients don't seem to understand what it is. you're right that anything not in the cahier des charges should be billed extra, but sometimes it's tricky. almost always, actually. unless it's quite clearly an additional service, most clients seem to think that they can ask for an unlimited number of modifications, versions, and revisions, without extra charge, even when it means two or three times (or more) the work originally planned.
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Just found out I have an author cloud at Librarything 
I'm a bit surprised (and slightly ashamed) at some of the names that pop out in big print. Some of them I don't even like that much, but I guess I did read several books by them  |
heehee ! i have no author cloud but i see we have similar tastes. and hey, that guy "anonymous", wow ! he wrote some good stuff, and he was amazingly prolific !!!
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I'z in teh bak of ur hed.
Yours insincerely,
Adrian |
engrish ftw !!!