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Kayaking and a damsel in distress Written by Pug

Freelance work kan be a pain in the butt. Sometimes deadlines gather together to amass a coordinated attack on my sanity. The first victim is always whatever passes for social life theese days. The next sacrifice on the altar of income is sleep. Who needs it anyways? I always try to keep some buffer time between deadlines in case som follow up work is required or an editor finds himself grumpy and takes it out on the hired help. This happens surprisingly often. And I tend to pad my invoice whenver it happens. If i'm going to suffer for them, they will have to pay extra for that suffering.

But this attack on my sainty took me by surprise. The texts I had handed in were good. Way better than merely acceptable. I was looking forward to a few days of chilling out before starting the next task. But, no. That wasn't an option. One of my steady customers needed my services. Urgently. Urgently enough to compensate me adequately. They basically made it so worth my time to take their job that i could dump the next I had lined up. That job wasn't from a good customer anyway, they always approached pay day as a negotiation, even if the sums were explisitly written in the contract.

Even so, one can't do buisness for long if one pisses off the customers. And as a freelance, or self employed writer I needed to have a decent pool of custumers who wanted me to write, translate or edit things for ...

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