Reminder to my freelance friends: Your job is to be the easiest person in the world to work with. Easy easy easy. (That makes it easy for them to keep giving you money, too!)

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My husband always says “see how you were just now, on the phone, with those annoying clients. Can you be more like that with me?”

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We recently let a freelancer go because he was just too darn hard to work with. Talented, but made everything more difficult.

Save the excessive push backs for full time.

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100%. Someone once described it to me this way: If you're there, they need help. Your job is to make your CD/ECD look good and not stress.

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Exactly. You’re there to take stress away. Be a box they can throw problems at and always know they’ll go away.

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Good reminder

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