Doing work for friends
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I keep doing it even though it's never rewarding. I offer to design for free with the understanding that the money saved will be spent on better production, and then they cheap on that too. It really grinds my gears. A current friend/client just tacked on a couple of more deliverables without even asking me first, they just took my idea and started telling me how good it would look on things when I designed them. On the occasions when I've given the "friend discount" I still get resistance when payment time comes, and then the inevitable "I'll pay you with [insert something they can do]" shit. I want to do work for friends, but after this point I think I'll have to just start treating them like paying clients.
Another annoying thing about friends is that they think a chat window is a good place to share their design briefs, deadlines and revisions requests. Please. I close those windows; anything you type into an IM is considered disposable when it comes to business (to me). If you want me to take something seriously, take the damn time to write a real email with a relevant subject, especially if it's important stuff.