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I've reached about all the same conclusions myself, except for the "only work with one client at a time" part. Ideally it would be great, but I've found that de

I've reached about all the same conclusions myself, except for the "only work with one client at a time" part. Ideally it would be great, but I've found that design work is often an ongoing process, where you might need to invest tons of hours into designing a home page at one point, and then just spend a couple hours on a widget redesign the next month. So I need multiple clients just to fill in the gaps when some of them don't need my services that much. If I applied the "1 client only" rule, it would prevent me from having that flexible long-term relationships with my clients, and I think the quality of my work would suffer from it.

mvzink 15y ago
Yeah, his one client rule is really particular to his situation, not people doing this full time.
blankenship 15y ago
Absolutely agreed. If I was doing 40+ hours a week of client work, I'd have the margin (and financial need) to work with multiple clients in any given season. But in addition to a full-time gig, I just can't swing it. Most the work I take on is shorter design/direction gigs with 1-3 week timeframes. In the gaps I take my 15 hours and use it for personal work. But again, all unique to my situation.