UKNM: RE: Going Freelance

[Neil Aberdeen]

Jo, John, Lois

Having scootered back from Grouchos I sit here fully wankered-up in my Issey

Myake posing-pouch wondering why you self-important arses think you have the

right to spout on without having your self-aggrandisement pricked from time

to time. Then I realise that you are the spearhead of the new

super-productive worker slaves that will take New Britain to new heights

through pompous lecturing and self-obsession. Set your goals, nothing can

stop you. The rest of us, wracked with jealousy and in awe of your

achievements, beg that we might be shown the path to higher pomposity. Let

the liberarian right assert themselves. Down with 'politics and unnecessary

spending impulses'

Don't take it personally, if I had any friends some of them would be

freelancers.

Neil



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From: "John Braithwaite" <

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Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:48 AM

Subject: UKNM: RE: Going Freelance



> Jo, I'd have to support you vehemently here.

>

> Neil - if you can't choose your freelancers well, then that's your

> problem.... but my wife works from home as a content writer for websites

> and, at the moment, is judged on every project, page, sentence that she

> does. If she doesn't deliver the goods, she has to change it, if she

doesn't

> perform she gets the boot (yet to happen!).

>

> She charges more than the staff that the company has at their disposal -

but

> her output is double what they do on a good day (long term contracts are

far

> more likely to induce the kind of slackerdom that you were talking about).

>

> She doesn't go to Soho (often) and doesn't wear three quarter length

> trousers with wrap around shades at night. But she's busy, has plenty of

> good clients (who come to her first for availability) and does a very good

> job.

>

> But, what would you know?

>

> JB

>

>

> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:09:48 +0100

>

From: Jo Chipchase <jocan-u-hack-it [dot] com>

> Subject: Re: UKNM: Re: Going Freelance

>

> Do you work freelance, Neil?  I think you don't.

>

> More so than people who work in an agency environment, where their

> shortcomings may be buffered by the efforts of their colleagues,

> freelancers cannot *afford* to present clients with sloppy work or, as you

> say, "tell them what they want to hear".  Freelancers are directly

> accountable to their clients and any f*ck ups lie directly and heavily on

> their shoulders.

>

> As for "rip-off work from people you've never heard of", I would also say

> that, in my experience, I have heard anecdotal examples of agencies

> claiming the work of a freelance developer entirely as their own when they

> had no involvement with it, but not generally vice versa (although I'm

sure

> it *does* happen in some cases).  If someone had so little integrity, I

for

> one would have no dealings with them.

>

> You use the words "slackers" and "lazy".  Perhaps you would like to come

> round here one night at 3am while I'm still working at my PC, and you have

> been supping over-priced drinkies in some pretentious Soho bar with your

> colleagues, who are probably more concerned with the style of their latest

> "urban wear" than the latest network kiosk your company is developing.

>

> Ascerbic, perhaps.  True... most likely.   :)

>

>

> Jo.



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