UKNM: Now now (going freelance)

[Lois Grayson]

Neil you don't last long as a freelance if you fuck up or take the easy way

out - word gets round. And you're not a consultant if you only tell people

what they want to hear - you have to have ethics. Strange word I know but

essential; I fired a client when they wanted me to compromise mine.


This life is too short not to be happy and that means being true to

yourself.


I personally choose to sell my intelligence and experience and live on a

pretty basic salary in return for time to do stuff I love - being with my

child, training to be able to kick the crap out of fuckwits, working with an

autistic child, studying for a second degree... etc etc. The day I have

nothing of unusual value to offer this business will be the day I look for

permanent (ha-ha!) job. Until then I don't want bosses, politics,

unnecessary spending impulses, stress, public transport and hierarchy

interfering with my liberty.


People have two reactions when they find out how I go about living - one is

respect ....and the other is jealousy..............


Lois


----- Original Message -----

From: Neil Aberdeen <

neiltui [dot] co [dot] uk

>

To: <

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 2:51 PM

Subject: UKNM: Re: Going Freelance



> My additional advice is:

> 1. Form a small cartel of like-mind slackers with super-inflated opinions

of

> themselves and rely on the mugs that employ you to be too lazy to do

> anything about the profligate waste.

>

> 2. Claim work that you had barely anything to do with for yourself. Better

> still rip-off work from people you've never heard of, confident that

anyone

> lazy enough to employ you is far too indolent to check.

>

> 3. If you fuck up, make it into an amusing anecdote about 'the crazy

> industry' we work in. If someone says 'hello' take it as endorsement of

your

> great achievements.

>

> 4.Be prepared to sell a kidney, especially if it's not yours.

>

> 5. Always believe that there's something innately worthwhile in getting

paid

> to mutter syllogisms or in excitedly reading out PowerPoint presentations

to

> small gatherings of people who would rather be somewhere else, all of whom

> would be perfectly able to read the thing for themselves and would have

done

> should they had thought for a minute that there was any information to be

> gleaned.

>

> 6. Because sums are more than a bit like hard work and not really, really

> creative - get someone who can add up to do it for you.

>

> 7. Read pop-psychology and believe it. You are the best.

>

> 8. Always tell them what they want to hear.

>

> Neil Aberdeen

>

neiltui [dot] co [dot] uk

>

> [Sam says: msg chopped]



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