What do these clients even take freelancers for?
Do this, do that, can we get it done faster, time isn’t on our side….
I am tired of all these individuals who treat freelancers like staff, do you think we work for you only, we have other things to do too nah
You will expect that freelancers have a lot of time to flex and be free, considering the fact that most of them work from anywhere they like.
It is the weekend and I am sure some freelancers have been nailed to the cross of work, by some clients who have deadlines that can lead one down the path of death.😥
Before you label us as ineffective and annoying, please read what our frustrations are.
Lack of Communication
Some clients give you a task without a clear line of explantation as regards what needs to be done, they just paint a vague picture of their expectations, and follow it up with the statement of “I trust whatever you do”, but you finish doing what needs to be done, that’s when they remember that they need to include one inspiration that fell on their head like Thors hammer
Power Supply
If you live in this part of the world where I live and you are a freelancer, you deserve an award for endurance, you see those people called power supply authorities, they can frustrate everything for you, especially during those days of fuel scarcity, you would have gotten the inspiration needed to work, only for them to start their witchcraft attitudes by manufacturing darkness during the day.😡
Internet
This one is another “wahala“, if you act smart by buying all the sim cards in this part of the world, they can still pour sand in your garri when every network provider starts telling you “connection error”, or the part where they suck your data as if you are the one supplying hotspot to the whole community.
Trying to Do Everything
Some clients are just wicked, they will tell you they need you to only adjust something on the front-end of the website, but once you start working on the project, they will just show you another problem on the backend and beg you to solve it because they have not yet paid you money. You will think that is all you have to solve, until they ask you to help them with a quick graphics design.😥
Trust
Some clients will come to you for work, but before you start the work, they will tell you stories about how people have betrayed their trust, and how they find it challenging to trust freelancers anymore.
I will just be laughing because if I also decide to tell this client how people have betrayed my trust, the both of us will end up consoling each other on the phone.
Please let’s both forget about past betrayals and focus on building the present and future trustworthy relationships, abeg.💁♀️
Conclusion
There is just a whole lot, but I have to go now because this client is already sending voice notes screaming about a deadline that is already close, despite the fact that he has given the project to more than 3 other freelancers before coming to me.
Now he wants me to perform magic, anyways I will do my best, but I will tell him a piece of my mind that I won’t tolerate such kind of pressure anymore because my mental health is more important to me than dollars.🤨
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