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Ahmad Alfy
May 12th, 2008
ROFL
Some times you realize you should stop and say “NO”
Strømme
May 12th, 2008
Luckily for me, my girlfriend routinely forces me to sleep when I’m on projects.
Jon Phillips
May 12th, 2008
haha, sounds like me (and that sounds like something my girlfriend would say)
Alexandru Cohaniuc
May 12th, 2008
ha ha,
Yeap, I do that too. Actually, this is not a good thing. One should concentrate on the the projects one has.
Rogers
May 12th, 2008
Yep this is me
What lead one to do this? The fear of having no job to do in the future?
Nemesis Design
May 12th, 2008
I just learnt to say no, i don’t want to ruine my life
Shawn
May 12th, 2008
I just made that promise two weeks ago… but somehow I just billed 55 hours last week and now I’m sick. Need to learn to say NOOOOOOO someday.
Omar
May 12th, 2008
I learnt to say no too, and my wife forces me to stop at a certain point spend time and chill, before sleeping. Dont over-kill, you’ll always get work if you produce good stuff.
Matt Crest
May 12th, 2008
I’ve been dealing with this issue for the past month or so - and finally realized the source of the problem was my lack of a workload overview. I have my project management system set up, but it doesn’t do a good enough job of letting me know what my next 1-4 weeks worth of work looks like.
So, I’ve started using a big desk calendar and just writing project milestones out (in pencil of course). It’s working great so far - and a lot more simple than a complex Gantt Chart type application. I’m still pushing through the crazy workload, but should have things under control in a week or two and be able to let clients know that new projects can’t start until _____.
Ahh yes. Workload management.
PS - if anyone has other ideas for workload management, please do share!
Banago
May 12th, 2008
I stay up till late at night and than I have to sleep at the morning which I do not like at all.
Jacqueline
May 12th, 2008
Oh man, I totally do this. I tend to work a LOT for a couple weeks and then take some time off, though, so I do take breaks.
Laura
May 12th, 2008
I almost never say no (unless I’m really hella slammed). It’s more like, “Sure! I can get to that in about [x] days/weeks.”
Most clients are willing to wait if you can give them a time line.
It’s all about managing expectations (and your own schedule).
Thomas
May 13th, 2008
Exactly where I am right now. Just as I took a full-time job at the beginning of April, freelance business is booming…
freelance writer
May 13th, 2008
Overloading yourself with work has its positives and negatives. The positives are obvious — more money — more referrals — more clients. The drawbacks are as a freelancer if you overload yourself are you truly giving your clients quality work. I use to sacrifice quality for a fast buck, but I’ve come to the realization that quality work actually brings customers back and shabby work is a one-time ordeal. So in the long run the quality work wins the race, so now I only take on a limited amount of projects at a time. I do hope to get some hired help so I can take on much more work, but in due time…
chaase
May 14th, 2008
this is totally me! And that is totally my wife getting on my case for taking on more projects. It’s sad that so many of us are experiencing this.
div
June 17th, 2008
First of all great comics you have here.
And this reminds me totaly of myself, except I am talking somekind to myself saying “damn you have so much work to do in 2 days , how can you do that ?”
Regards