Question of ethics

[Chris Blair]

Bob Zelin wrote:

As a business owner, every day is “looking for another job

Bob (as always) hit the nail on the proverbial head. There’s a huge myth in small business that rarely gets talked about.

It goes: “If you start your own company you’ll be working for yourself.”

The fact is, when you start your own company and become an employer, you are NOT the boss. Your clients become your boss. So you don’t have just one demanding boss, you have as many demanding bosses as you have clients. Some are a joy to work for. Many are not. In many ways it’s worse than being an employee, especially if you’re the type that questions authority. And to be clear, I’m not talking about Aaron when I use the pronoun “you.”

I’m talking in general. You have to learn to let what clients say roll off your back. You have to realize there are clients that will pay for good work and quality, and there are those that will question every single thing you charge them for and assume you’re trying to screw them. You have to realize several clients will choose your unskilled, hack competitor because they can save $100 on a $4000 project by using them. Never mind the project ends up looking like crap….they’ve put 100 more dollars in their pocket!

I think what everybody is saying on here is: nothing will change even if you get a new job or start your own company. If you work hard and have a good attitude, good things WILL happen. It might take 2 years, it might take 20. But it will happen.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com

[Shane Ross]

Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.
— Homer Simpson

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[Grinner Hester]

while ya get what you can pay for, artists have always given what they are worth, not on their pay scale.
As long as everyone is on the same page, all is well. I once interviewed for a job where the dude ended by telling me I was over qualified. I told him that was fine and I’d just not try very hard.

[Ron Lindeboom]

[grinner hester] “I once interviewed for a job where the dude ended by telling me I was over qualified. I told him that was fine and I’d just not try very hard.”

That was hilarious, Grinner.

Thanks for a morning laugh. I almost tore holes in my cheeks, I smiled so big.

Boomer