Episodes
The horror story that ends up with the client coming back with an apology and a job offer decades later.
Everyone is rational until the friend of a friend gets rich by doing something they are not doing, and that’s when you need to press pause and back down.
When everyone has a strong opinion on your work, even though they know nothing about doing your job, learn how to set boundaries before you have to end up charging them $120k for a blog.
Doing the proper background check and finding out who actually makes the decisions goes a long way, and so does trusting your instincts.
Watch out for out of the blue matches made in Heaven, if it looks way too good to be true, it probably isn’t. A lesson on how chains of command that look much more like a children’s phone game can and will blow up.
A tale on how frustrating it can get to have an awesome idea, just too many years ahead. And on how a really tough crowd can push you to the edge on the worst possible moment.