Working with friends
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I do freelance work for my best friend all the time. It's usually small jobs, and he briefs me, I do it, he has changes he wants, I make them, he gets changes from his client, I make them, I invoice.
Bang.
The problem is when you assume that because you're being paid peanuts you get full creative freedom. Then they start acting like they're paying you corporate rates, wanting changes and basically not doing the homework you demand like getting some goddamn fucking content up there!!
Working for friends is possible, but you need to have a very hardass conversation, explaining to them that they are already fucking you over from day 1 so they need to be humble. And you need to not see it as an opportunity to do an amazing folio piece, which has been my mistake in the past