freelance situation
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- vespa0
heh, when i was freelancing a certain uk tv company would take at least 3 months to pay, and it was never regular. it really screwed up my cash flow, and of course i'm terrible at managing my finances so i couldn't keep track of it all. i actually received one cheque a year and a half after i'd stopped working for them!
a small agency i worked for was in a similar situation to the one you've described - one main client who expected us to drop everything for them cos they knew they were our biggest client, but the urgent timing started to be at the expense of our other clients. We ended up negotiating a deal where they could have a set number of hours every month at a discounted rate that they had to pay monthly for, but they had to give a weeks' notice to use these hours, and anything over that or more urgent would get charged on top at a higher rate with the normal 30 day invoice. So then the onus was on them to sort out their management, and if they couldn't, at least we would get extra cash and at least they had had the option of the discount so they didn't think we were ripping them off.