How has your life changed over the past year? In reading some of your comments and replies, you seem kind of defensive. I know it's kind of natural when you're

How has your life changed over the past year? In reading some of your comments and replies, you seem kind of defensive. I know it's kind of natural when you're getting picked apart by your peers, especially in this environment (a generally respectful crowd). However, I would consider that some of the communication failures with your clients (whether your fault or theirs doesn't matter) might be caused by insecurity. I've known a lot of programmers in the past who were naturally insecure people and this manifested itself in conversation. Where they would say "Yes, I'll set up a cloud based solution with redundant storage and a jquery front end" (and feel a bit of satisfaction about sounding smart) I would just say "Yeah, I'll get it done and send you a login". After a year of working, everyone came to me internally with issues instead of the guy who's been here for 8 years. Anyhow, don't get down on yourself. It seems like you're in a frustrating situation in general and you tried to air out one grievance to get some relief. Unfortunately it appears to have frustrated you more. Just realize that a lot of people here are trying to help. Also, no one here can fix your client so naturally they're going to concentrate on the only thing they can help fix: you. You might have to go out of your way to accommodate your client, but that's why you get paid right? If it isn't worth the money then stop taking jobs with non-technical clients.