"I personally have done a few projects of spec work. Both my projects for Mozilla were spec work for example. I did them for free, in return for the projects be

"I personally have done a few projects of spec work. Both my projects for Mozilla were spec work for example. I did them for free, in return for the projects being a portfolio piece." Having the opportunity of doing some work for Mozilla is MILES AWAY from the majority of the sort of thing that is requested in your standard spec work. 99% of it will end up lost in a shared drive on some corporate network somewhere.