Tired

[mbarrick]

I've had it with crap clients. In fact I had had it with them back on December 10th, 2001 and didn't bail then because of $6/lb. organic asparagus. Well, that's not a problem now. Mr. "Watch Hawker" has closed his online store. He also owes me over $500. Funny coincidence that. His buddy that I took on as a client despite not really wanting to take on any new clients owes me nearly $600 and also can kiss off - I've already removed the work he hasn't paid for from his website and told him if he wants it back he can pay for it. The remaining stores I host don't collectively bring in enough to cover the price of the SSL certificate, so when that expires they can get stuffed. I am officially closing my doors. I've downloaded the appropriate forms to cancel my business number and will be filling those in tonight.

After a year and a half here it's pretty clear that I'm going to stick with this job. I've got my expenses in line well enough that my salary pays my bills. My day job is enough work. When I get home I want to do something else, like, say, draw or paint. As crappy a job as it was the one thing I really liked about my time at the bank was my clients were non-existant (thus the need to take the crap job) and at the end of the day I was free to do what I wanted.

Comments

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

congratulations! it's been more a hassle than a help for a while now... enjoy the free time!

and as an added incentive- i get a lot of compliments on your painting in my office... :}

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

Clients are funny ....

Do that mean you aren't going to work for free anymore
out of the goodness of your heart and effictively PAY
to keep your clients in business. Wha kind of a heartless
bastard are you? You see their boat...the moorage isn't free
you know. And that Corvet... well SOMEBODY has to pay for the wax and the naked chick to give him hand jobs.

.... that all costs money Michael .. and if you aren't willing to
contribute your fair share to keep the business going he has driven into the ground ... well then you're just not a team player mister!


(maybe he JUST figured out the Dot-com bubble burst)


You know thats the problem with the economy .. there
is such competition out there. And since there are so
many LIARs who drive the value of service down to compete
- no-one can afford to make anymoney off anything becuse the general public expects it all to be free. Would you PAY
for dialup service anymore? How about web content?

The dot-com boom turned us into a top-heavy society of
freeloaders