The Chasing Iamb has some advice for freelancers. If you are one, or intend to be one, print this out and read it every morning before you start work:
Linked by space bar. Join Blogbharti facebook group.1. Don’t work for free. Ever. Not even the first time.
2. Do not listen to Falana publishers in Delhi, when they tell you that they love your work but they are just not in a position to pay you for the wonderful photographs you took of the Naxalites watching Om Shanti Om in Rajamundry. It is just what they need for their book but would you consider waiving their fee? No, you wouldn’t. Can you imagine them saying the same thing to the phone company or the electricity board?
3. When people tell you what fee they will pay you, take a few moments to think, before going into orgasmic agreement. If necessary, tell them you will call them back. Take some time to calculate the most realistic number of hours you will spend on this project and still have a life.
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