backbreaker
Master Don Juan
I still dabble with the web development business. It's just shooting fish in a barrel now, an easy 5-6k a month for me. I tried leasing the company but I saw quickly that wast going to work so I just downsized to where I feel better.. take on a few projects a month that are really no nonsense, right up our alley type stuff that i don't have to jump through hoops to get.
This isn't what I plan on doing long term, but I'm just so damn good at it I can't stop doing it. Then again you are doing something right when you can look for reasons to quit an 85k year job.
A few days before thanksgiving, I got contacted by this graphic design firm that had a ****load of work and needed someone relaiable to do it.
Within 2 days, red lights galore were going off in my head about the client. And 9 out of 10 times, I would have told the client to get lost.
1. He mentioned he can't find anyone reliable. That's like the HB8 saying she can't find a man that will "treat her right" there is usually more to the story. My rationle tells me with as much work as he had, I'll be damned ifsomeone isn't going to be reliabled. He tried to throw 8 jobs on me the day I met him. freaking 8. that's like 10 grand.
2. He is too scatterbrained to put together a list of requirements for what he wants done
3. To top that off, he would catch an attitude because you don't i know what you need to program because he doesn't know how to explain it
4. He tried to vastly undercharge me for the work that was done. He wanted us to program an entire adult paid site for like 300 bucks. Then when I called him on it he was like "well that's what i have always paid". I made him come off that but not be a hell of alot, but my thinking was the sites are all for the most part the same (at least his adult sites) and I coulod keep using the same code for the other sites, but still. 400 bucks for a week's worth of work is too low for good programming.
5. He didn't even have all the stuff to do the site. The first site was supposed to be hooked up to a cam site, and the code for the cam site to be integrated was never given to me.
6. Wants to put the site on his server before he pays the balance. that's a HUGE red flag to me
despite all this, i looked at the money and tried to make it work.
so, we program the first site, actually finished it on Christmas eve. didn't take all that long. he keeps talking about how he is in a hurry so we got it done for him. doesn't look at it until wednesday lol. then when he comes back, he catches an attitude because of the revisions that needs to be made and how he's on a tight deadline. I"m lke dude you took a week to get back to us. I tell him to put together a list of revisoins and all he can do is say "it's supposed to look like this, it's suppose to work like the picture i sent".
he goes through the site pointing out stuff that "doesn't work" only to find out it actually does he just didn't look hard enough or understand it, which further told me he had no clue when it came to programming
so we try to make the revisions, we make most of them, and i get an emial telling us that our services are no longer needed. mind you, the site is on his server.
6 years ago I would have threated everything in the book at the guy.
but now, i have absolutely no one to blame but myself for this ****. no one. I saw red flag after red flag. I even tried to quit and he talked me out of it lol. I was blinded by the fact that this guy could send us 2-3 projects a week and me not have to put togther proposals and ****. easy money. but nothing in life is ever as easy as it seems.
It has everything to do with women. You have to hold yourself to the higher standard.
99% of the time, let';s keep it real,l you see whatever **** that's about to hit the fan, a mile away before it happens. You just kid yourself and you want to get laid and talk yourself into it.
With my clients, i Have a 15 point bullet checklist that all my clnts have to pass for me to deal with them. We don't do as much work as we did, right now we are doing what, 6 projects, but all of them are pretty big projects, and all my clients are freaking awesome. I know what to look for in a good client. Because I know what I am looking for, I probably close close to 2 out of 3 jobs I try to get now. I am very efficient. I don't waste my time on jobs that might pay good but aren't a good fit. I don't waste my time with ****ty attiude clients, I don't waste my time with non technical people who think they are technical..
but the lure of money got me this time.
screen your damn plates. When I was younger, when I would go on a first date, and my sole purpose was to try to get some. that's it. whatever i had to say, whatever I had to do, whatever. that was the purpose. that's how a lot of guys are.
Now, well not now i'm married, but by the time I was winding down my single career, hell the first 2 dates were all auot screening. if she's attracted to you the ***** is going to be there. there is no going out of business clearance sale on *****. the first 1-2 dates, I'm trying to figure out
1. is she bat **** crazy?
2. is she a good fit?
3. is she a douche?
4. does she have serious issues?
5. is she a gold digger?
6. What type of role do I see this girl being in my life?
7. What type of baggage if any does she have?
ask her questions, get her to talk about herself. only then, once you have answered those 6 questions honestly, can you or shoudl you proceed with getting laid.
I came to the realization that if a girl for isntance, is bat **** crazy, I don't even want her for a ONS. I will not do anything witha girl until I know exactly what I"m dealing with. Is she the type of girl that will poke a hole in a condom? Is she a good girl but you are a rebound guy?
I met a girl at a bar one day, and she was drunk, I was drunk, we came back to my place, she gets on my computer and I bull **** you not, looks up.. and finds lol, Bestiality porn. Part of me was pretty impressed that you could find that **** lol, I live on the internet and cant' find that ****. But part of me was like "oo......k.. little man go back home and rest"
This isn't what I plan on doing long term, but I'm just so damn good at it I can't stop doing it. Then again you are doing something right when you can look for reasons to quit an 85k year job.
A few days before thanksgiving, I got contacted by this graphic design firm that had a ****load of work and needed someone relaiable to do it.
Within 2 days, red lights galore were going off in my head about the client. And 9 out of 10 times, I would have told the client to get lost.
1. He mentioned he can't find anyone reliable. That's like the HB8 saying she can't find a man that will "treat her right" there is usually more to the story. My rationle tells me with as much work as he had, I'll be damned ifsomeone isn't going to be reliabled. He tried to throw 8 jobs on me the day I met him. freaking 8. that's like 10 grand.
2. He is too scatterbrained to put together a list of requirements for what he wants done
3. To top that off, he would catch an attitude because you don't i know what you need to program because he doesn't know how to explain it
4. He tried to vastly undercharge me for the work that was done. He wanted us to program an entire adult paid site for like 300 bucks. Then when I called him on it he was like "well that's what i have always paid". I made him come off that but not be a hell of alot, but my thinking was the sites are all for the most part the same (at least his adult sites) and I coulod keep using the same code for the other sites, but still. 400 bucks for a week's worth of work is too low for good programming.
5. He didn't even have all the stuff to do the site. The first site was supposed to be hooked up to a cam site, and the code for the cam site to be integrated was never given to me.
6. Wants to put the site on his server before he pays the balance. that's a HUGE red flag to me
despite all this, i looked at the money and tried to make it work.
so, we program the first site, actually finished it on Christmas eve. didn't take all that long. he keeps talking about how he is in a hurry so we got it done for him. doesn't look at it until wednesday lol. then when he comes back, he catches an attitude because of the revisions that needs to be made and how he's on a tight deadline. I"m lke dude you took a week to get back to us. I tell him to put together a list of revisoins and all he can do is say "it's supposed to look like this, it's suppose to work like the picture i sent".
he goes through the site pointing out stuff that "doesn't work" only to find out it actually does he just didn't look hard enough or understand it, which further told me he had no clue when it came to programming
so we try to make the revisions, we make most of them, and i get an emial telling us that our services are no longer needed. mind you, the site is on his server.
6 years ago I would have threated everything in the book at the guy.
but now, i have absolutely no one to blame but myself for this ****. no one. I saw red flag after red flag. I even tried to quit and he talked me out of it lol. I was blinded by the fact that this guy could send us 2-3 projects a week and me not have to put togther proposals and ****. easy money. but nothing in life is ever as easy as it seems.
You might be asking, what in the fvck does this have to do with getting my **** wet.
It has everything to do with women. You have to hold yourself to the higher standard.
99% of the time, let';s keep it real,l you see whatever **** that's about to hit the fan, a mile away before it happens. You just kid yourself and you want to get laid and talk yourself into it.
With my clients, i Have a 15 point bullet checklist that all my clnts have to pass for me to deal with them. We don't do as much work as we did, right now we are doing what, 6 projects, but all of them are pretty big projects, and all my clients are freaking awesome. I know what to look for in a good client. Because I know what I am looking for, I probably close close to 2 out of 3 jobs I try to get now. I am very efficient. I don't waste my time on jobs that might pay good but aren't a good fit. I don't waste my time with ****ty attiude clients, I don't waste my time with non technical people who think they are technical..
but the lure of money got me this time.
screen your damn plates. When I was younger, when I would go on a first date, and my sole purpose was to try to get some. that's it. whatever i had to say, whatever I had to do, whatever. that was the purpose. that's how a lot of guys are.
Now, well not now i'm married, but by the time I was winding down my single career, hell the first 2 dates were all auot screening. if she's attracted to you the ***** is going to be there. there is no going out of business clearance sale on *****. the first 1-2 dates, I'm trying to figure out
1. is she bat **** crazy?
2. is she a good fit?
3. is she a douche?
4. does she have serious issues?
5. is she a gold digger?
6. What type of role do I see this girl being in my life?
7. What type of baggage if any does she have?
ask her questions, get her to talk about herself. only then, once you have answered those 6 questions honestly, can you or shoudl you proceed with getting laid.
I came to the realization that if a girl for isntance, is bat **** crazy, I don't even want her for a ONS. I will not do anything witha girl until I know exactly what I"m dealing with. Is she the type of girl that will poke a hole in a condom? Is she a good girl but you are a rebound guy?
I met a girl at a bar one day, and she was drunk, I was drunk, we came back to my place, she gets on my computer and I bull **** you not, looks up.. and finds lol, Bestiality porn. Part of me was pretty impressed that you could find that **** lol, I live on the internet and cant' find that ****. But part of me was like "oo......k.. little man go back home and rest"