Best or worst freelance experience !!

Best time sheet system you’ve ever tried in a job?

Which agencies have the best in-house departments?

I’m trying to decide on a hotel in the Maldives - currently choosing between the W Maldives and the Park Hyatt Maldives.

Does anyone have a perspective based on experience?

What’s the fastest WI-FI provider in Austin? I have Spectrum abs it’s not fast enough for my house of 5

I'm not sure if I love this life! I was entirely sure when I decided to enroll in the military, but after a few months, I felt exhausted. Could I have made a mistake?

Anyone out there in Fishbowl-land ever have to draw their service weapon? I know some guys who have been cops for years and never been in that situation, but I want to know how likely it is that it will happen while I’m on the job.

Coforge does a background verification check?

What’s the best ergonomic mouse y’all recommend? Can you please provide a link? TIA

How are Ogilvy and McGarry Bowen these days, creative wise, client retention, good “place” to work, work-life balance, etc.?

How much are my fellow VP Account Directors out there making? Just trying to gauge if I am being paid fairly. Don’t forget to state market and YOE. I am making $135k, 10 years of experience and in Chicago.

Can we open New Salary bank account in Optum for lateral? Or its mandatory to provide last company's salary account details and continue with same bank?

I clerked right after law school and I’ve been working in BigLaw since (last 3 years). I’ve always thought career clerking for the right judge would be incredible and I may have the opportunity to do so in the next year. Has anyone gone from BL to career clerk? Interested to hear about others’ experiences and if anyone can advise where I’d likely come in on the JPS with 3 years experience and a year of prior federal clerkship service. Thanks!

Need referral for front end developer having experience of 1+ years of experience. PLEASE HELP ME and need referral

I have submitted my background check for the new offer. One of my previous bosses I referenced and now I am trying to call and text him to inform but he’s not responding so I am worried. (Cont’d)

Today I’m thankful for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Coinbase. (And this community too)!

What kind of education or training (formal/informal) would you all recommend if you wanted to enter the tech side of crypto? Assume little to no tech skills to start.

Using coin on Robinhood vs a wallet?

Any good telegram channel you guys follow for signals or crypto charts updates ?

Which agencies have the best in-house departments?

What’s the highest day rate you’ve heard of an editor charging? I just found out what somebody is charging and it made my jaw drop.

Thinking about making the jump from senior level in-house to freelance. 12+ years experience. Shoot, edit, color, after effects, mix, etc. What kind of day rate could I expect in Mpls or Chi?

Beginner video editing advice wanted - I’m working on a personal side gig project. As part of that, I’m recording short interviews with people currently using a camera and/or iPhone .. (cont)

Curious what comp package and terms it’d take for successful 5+ YOE freelancers to consider staff? Please also leave your YOE w response.

Are post-houses ramping back to in-person? I’m freelance and so far have had a couple in-person sessions but everything else has still been remote. I’m in NYC.

What would you do in this situation? I signed a schedule A for one weeks work at Company A for $600 per day and then company B offered me 2 weeks work at $800 per day.

Anyone have a magic number that would make you give up freelancing and take a staff job? (New York)

Anyone still using avid on commercials? In NY it seems to be 100% premiere now

What platforms do folks use for vault / element management these days? I need to build a new library. Is it still klugey FileMaker databases?

I’m so glad this bowl finally exists.

How’s everyone doing out there? Busy? Slow? Remote? In person? Lower rates?

Are y’all raising rates to account for inflation? Am I stupid if I haven’t yet?

I’m new to freelancing, at a senior level and in NYC. Can anyone give me a range of what day rate would be appropriate to charge? Thank you!!

How much does a post house typically charge an advertising client for editing in NYC? Whether that’s hourly, daily, etc.

I work at a post-house and made a spec spot using a bunch of footage that was provided to us by a client (direct to brand relationship, not via an agency). Clients haven’t seen....

Website question: is it bad to have a few spots that are over five years old? I keep them down at the bottom and the majority are much newer so they sort of serve as a ‘best of’ my older work.

Hey editor fishes! How is 2021 starting off for everyone? I often find this time of year slow but so far I’ve been pretty busy!

Does your agency have any revision requests you always turn away as a rule of thumb?

I'm working on establishing our video department and I pretty much have to start from scratch as far as client/internal understanding of the video process goes (we are a fairly small agency). Any other general advice would be awesome as well.