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Every day you wake up in the morning, work, and then you put your head on your pillow at night. You never get that day back, it’s gone forever and your life is
by raganwald 15y ago
Every day you wake up in the morning, work, and then you put your head on your pillow at night. You never get that day back, it’s gone forever and your life is one day shorter. You’ve either done good work or bad during that day. How many days of bad work can you tolerate before you decide to make a change in your life?
I think at some level people either decide that they don’t care about their work or they care enough that bad work is painful. It’s not for me to tell you or anybody else which way to go with this, but for me, bad work is painful and it’s up to me to work things out with clients such that I do good work and they are happy with the results.
- wccrawford 15y agoAnd the alternative is to go to bed frustrated and hateful because a client didn't deliver on a promise? You can't change the client's past actions. You can't even improve them. The best you can do is go to bed knowing you did your best.
- raganwald 15y agoIf a client does something such that I do bad work once in a while, fine. If one client in a while does things that make me do bad work on their project, that is regrettable but I’m not going to an early grave lamenting it. But if this state of affairs becomes normal, such that I am doing bad work nearly every day, for nearly every client, that is not fine with me personally.