Doing work for friends
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It really depends. I echo what others have said: a bad client is a bad client.
Stay away from friends that have their "baby project" and little to no money. They are going to be way too controlling and you won't make any money from it. If your friend/family has a legitimate business and they understand the value of design then go for it.
But for the most part I just steer clear. I tell them I'm too busy. The last few projects I took on for friends wasted a lot of my time and my ego took a beating. I had one friend, a dj who claimed to be flying out to do a 6 hour set in Ibiza, who needed a logo desperately and we agreed upon a trade. I worked hard on it and sent him the first round of comps and he basically ignored me. Obviously we were on different pages but he couldn't even work with me and tell me why he didn't like it. His non-response was basically saying "that sucked, you suck". On top of that a couple of mutual friends have been acting weird towards me and I'm pretty sure he showed them "my crappy work". The funniest part is he never flew out to Spain, and he never played that 6 hour set he claimed to have.