I designed and built a website for a client about ten years earlier. Every time they get a new website idea they throw it my way and⦠well⦠then logic prevails:. I am a college senior doing freelance web design to scrape up some extra cash. My current client is a well-respected public speaker who needed a professional website.
After just starting development on Thursday, the following interaction occurred on Friday afternoon as I was about to leave his office. Please finish the website and wrap this up by the end of today! Creating an entire site requires a lot more time than that. In the future, please wrap up your projects before the weekend. Would you be able to send me the website content so I can finish?
A coworker has been on the phone for over an hour. I have heard them repeat, sometimes more than a dozen times, the same basic instructions over and over again. Sometimes he will backtrack and simplify the previous instruction because the end user has done something catastrophically wrong with the current instruction. Let it be clear that our end users are clients who work in the tech field.
My coworker should not have to be explaining to them what a cursor is, or how to copy and paste. After the call, my coworker removes his headset, massages the bridge of his nose, and catches me staring. When I first started as a freelance artist, I came into contact with a small startup game development group looking to publish a console game as their first endeavor.
I was intrigued at first by their confidence and solid game concept, so I accepted when they offered to have me work on some of their assets. Despite a few speedbumps, I tried my best to cooperate with the project lead and wound up creating a few assets that I was rather proud of given the little amount of direction that I had.
