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  • pillhead

    So I had 2 short term contracts come in last week from different agencies, seeing as there short term I work on a first come first served bases. So I agree on the first contract that get's to me, and agree to start on Monday, this then get's pushed back to Wensday, and today I find that the contract has fallen through, I have now lost almost £2k in revenue, and lost the other contract.

    I just do not understand how these agencies can contact you to say the work is there with a start date, for them to then get back to you and say that there still negotiating on price and there has been a problem. I'm just a littel bit pissed off right now.

    Apr 24, 12, 7:01 a.m. – Permalink
  • ideaist

    Agencies could care less about their creatives or production people; avoid them like a form of new age plague...

    It's happened to all of us pillhead.

    ...upwards & onwards!

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:04 a.m. – Permalink
  • rson

    Was it your contract or theirs? Was there an upfront cost?

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:06 a.m. – Permalink
  • Claymantis

    real world bro. No one cares.. Keep that knife sharp and always watch ur back.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:06 a.m. – Permalink
  • formed

    There is always a million reasons why things can fall through. I'd say 75% of our projects don't start when they are promised to start, take longer, etc. Too many variables.

    My advice: never turn work down. Find someone else and send it to them, if you have to.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:08 a.m. – Permalink
  • zoozoo

    yeah thats a bummer man

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:14 a.m. – Permalink
  • pillhead

    This still leaves me in a shit place to be this month, and not allot to show for it. Fuck sake.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:17 a.m. – Permalink
  • zoozoo

    not a fan of the sake?

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:19 a.m. – Permalink
  • jonnypompita

    Ha typical,...i've turned down work after being booked at agencies here in NYC only to have it fall through and i end up with neither. Agencies are not your friends, use them like they use you.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:34 a.m. – Permalink
  • d_rek

    I'm 60 days out on a $300 invoice... if that's any consolation. Gotta love the freelance life.

    • It's not making or breaking me right now. But fuck I want that goddamn $300.d_rek
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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 7:37 a.m. – Permalink
  • desmo

    As everyone has stated, agencies can show work and take it away on a whim. There will always be a designer ready to make themselves available when the work comes around (whenever that happens). So its no sweat to the agency. It sucks, but thats how she rolls.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 8:06 a.m. – Permalink
  • 2002

    d_rek

    I thought you were with some shop?

    • I am fulltime in-house. But I moonlight as a freelancer.d_rek1/3
      It's retainer work for a client i've been working with for a few years now. I just bill them at the end of the month. Last few months have been pretty light.d_rek2/3
      months have been pretty light.d_rek3/3
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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 8:09 a.m. – Permalink
  • 2002

    I stopped billing clients work under $200

    • Yeah, I could have waited to clock up some more hours but the workload has been light the last few months.d_rek
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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 8:09 a.m. – Permalink
  • dijitaq

    end of february i finished my one year contract, and the boss said he like my work and offered me a full-time job. in the process, i turned down an offer from a different company.

    early this month, the boss said that no new project have come in since start of the year and the ones that have either have been cancelled or postponed. he bluntly said he couldn't afford to keep me.

    need to start going through my contact list again.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 8:14 a.m. – Permalink
  • albums

    http://64.58.6.86:7701/whambulance.com_files/Whambulance.jpg

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 8:20 a.m. – Permalink
  • pillhead

    Anyway, NEXT!

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 8:38 a.m. – Permalink
  • jonnypompita

    Death to all agencies. May one day their business model be obsolete.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 9:52 a.m. – Permalink
  • 2012

    Welcome to freelancing

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 9:54 a.m. – Permalink
  • zoozoo

    i do like that agencies pay quickly

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 9:59 a.m. – Permalink
  • ohhhhhsnap

    pillhead. take a day.

    ...you know. go to the gym and beat up a punching bag, take a yoga class, run fast 6x's around the block, scream on some remote hill where no one will hear you, have some ROOT with ginger...

    hit the restart button tomorrow or Thursday.
    you'll have something better come up. maybe it just "wasn't meant to be" sorry for the clique but it's true. could be you dodged a bullet.

    i'm sure you've taken something away too.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 3:48 p.m. – Permalink
  • TheBlueOne

    Occupy the Agencies.

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    Dog-earApr 24, 12, 4:23 p.m. – Permalink

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