Over the course of my lengthy freelancing career, which now stands a shade over eighteen months, I have come to realise that I bore easily. This is a phenomenon common to most geniuses (aswell as myself), but rather frustrating when one has to earns ones crust by the sweat of ones brow.

This becomes apparent to me when I reflect that the most exhilarating part of the entire freelance process for me is The Quote. The Admin is a necessary evil which I can just about manage (I had to submit a tax return recently for the first time ever -- how do you Americans manage every year?). The Scrolling Through Lists of Overly Optimistic Job Titles I can make my peace with. The Getting Paid I have no qualms with. The Work is good, but The Quote? The Quote is bliss.

During The Quote, I am almost invincible. My imagination is fired, I run on all cylinders. 'I Can Solve Your Problem,' chunters my cerebral cortex. I bend my energies towards pitching my perfect solution to the client. 

I love The Quote. I could do The Quote all day. 'Best wishes, Dan'

This is a problem.

The Quote, with its intoxicating possibility, only ends in one of three ways, none of them a fitting consummation of its potential. Either as an unanswered message abandoned into the aether, or in banal rejection - the polite formalism of 'prefer a different style', or again in the cruelty of acceptance.

Acceptance cruelly pricks the bubble of The Quote. The waveform collapses, the possibilities coalesce around the solution: that I am in fact going to have to do the thing I said I could do, and that this will be infinitely less fun than the thinking about doing it that went before.

I should grow up. Is this a problem for you, or am I alone in my peculiarity?

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Reviewed by LucySpencer
September 09, 2011
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I am here to tell you that you are definitely not alone. I have no problem telling clients how I can help them. I have a bit of a problem after they realize this too, because then I have to fit them into my schedule, and then I have to back up all those awesome things I said about myself. I'm currently in the middle of a self-imposed moratorium on bidding because my eagerness to solve problems has caught up with my tendency to fall asleep when I try to burn the candle at both ends.

How do we manage doing our tax returns every year? With varying degrees of groaning and moaning and bitching and whining. Some of us breeze through it, a few of us actually ignore it altogether ("I have people for that"), but most of us just muddle through and get used to it.

 

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September 08, 2011
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The way FNWE got over this is we go over our financials on a regular basis. No matter how good we think we are doing at any given project phase the financials and reviews don't lie.