My Dog Diary

Those of you who know me should know that I’ve been on freelance basis for… as long as I can remember. :D While I started my little business project with darl last year on crafty stuffs, I still work a little bit of freelance on selected graphical and packaging work – selected, because I only select the project and people/company that I feel comfortable to work with. Nothing personal over here, it’s just because I feel that every client and personnel has different tastes and expectations, there are times that I just can’t blend in with what they are expecting, and I don’t wanna waste our time and effort on it.

Somehow, along my freelance journey, I’ve met some people who, I just don’t understand why, think that I SHOULD design for them for free because they are friends. They don’t get the idea that ‘designing is my profession and I’m also working for a living’. They could just simply drop you an email or give you a nice phone call and say:

‘Eh need your help to design a simple xxx for me.’

Yeah right, simple. They ALWAYS stress that all they need is simple stuff. But what is simple? Perhaps just a name and your business on your business card? Then perhaps you can do it with your word processing application, duh.

Seriously, I don’t mind helping a friend here and there, and I’m glad that I could, but hey, I’m not opening a business for charity. With my little business in progress I already have so many things piling up waiting for an independent aritist like me to finish – mind you, the tasks are just like a proper company: documentation, marketing, promotions, communication, customer service, even working like an office boy sending packaging to the post office! And yet, they still think I should fork out my time to work out concepts and ideas, and work in front of the computer for hours for them – for FREE! Oh and the work seems never-ending…

Perhaps just a little bit of consideration for freelancers like me, please?

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