You Work for Clients, Remember?

October 14th, 2009

Joshua Blankenship comments on freelance work:

Pick good clients. Do work you’re proud of. Setup solid guardrails and expectations. Push back with informed professional opinions. Communicate exceptionally well and often. But make the client happy—that’s why they call it “client work.”

I’m reminded of a quote from The Fountainhead, from the protagonist Howard Roark:

I don?t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.