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- blaw0
Maybe be a bit less humble and explain that you are in demand. Reiterate how much you enjoy the opportunity to work with them, but as a design professional you need to be very attentive to project scheduling.
- good luck with that LOLdskz
- blaw, i agree with you, and that is exactly what i tell them [except for the demand part]barbtastic
- "I don't if you know this...but, I'm kind of a big deal."JackRyan
- You fellows are missing the point. I'm not saying be an ass, I'm saying that Barb obviously has options. They need to....blaw
- ...know that.blaw
- i am humble by nature, but i can admit i am in high demand [to myself]...barbtastic
- but i like to prove that thru my work, not by telling therm i'm the awesome saucebarbtastic
- dskz0
dont ask questions, just keep working. they dont need to know what else you are doing.
If they are the priority, just keep their tasks above the other clients tasks.
- barbtastic
as a full-time freelancer, i am hired to help out large companies on location when they are short-handed... usually starts out as a 2-3 week assignment that turns into a few months.
sometimes it gets to the point where i don't even ask if they need me anymore, i just keep showing up as long as i have open projects.
thing is, other clients start calling about my availability, and in order to give them an accurate answer and to make sure i'm keeping a full work schedule, i have to ask these on-location people "what's the plan?" for the coming weeks/months
no one has 5 minutes, so i usually send an email to the supervisors of my projects and politely let them know that i need to plan my schedule and ask if will they be needing me in the coming weeks/months, if not, i will schedule other work.
if i don't say anything at all, they start to take for granted that i'm "on call" for them and only them, i keep showing up... but in the same moment will come back from some scary budget meeting and tell me they won't be needing me after that day, with no notice.
i feel like i'm being fair, but some of my clients seem to misunderstand this as me being "sick" of working there or trying to "get out".
does this happen to other freelancers who work on-location, or am i effing this up somehow?