Its still possible to come accross as personal and fun you have to just do it right.

I think I respect people that talk about, for example do watersports, or go out, because it shows they have a health work/life balance.

Useful piece, thanks.

Im doing a magazine in my house for a client and he comes personally to delivery the business… but i got a little problem, the magazine is 80% cleared and he never payed one cent to me now and every time i talk about the money he says “its coming man stay cool” but it wont affect me at all i know i will only give him the complete magazine after he pays me, but the real problem is.

The client comes to my house at 20:00h but i live in my grandmother house and my PC stays in her room and i talked with him to end a day of work at 22:00h since all layout was done by me one month later of start project so the process of magazine is very fast, but the client every day want to extend the work to 23:00h and because my grandmother sleeps in her room at 22:30h, and sometimes i burn in hate and my expression change a lot, he knows it but he don´t care about it and he stay in the room at 23:00h, i don’ t wanna know how to end this nightmare and keep the client, know i will lost this job after the release of magazine…. i just want to keep him as my loyal client but he wont care about my life if its possible he stays in my home at 2:00h.

I need some advices.

Another good thing to think about– this old saying regarding people who work in service jobs– “They may serve you, but they are not your servants.” I think it’s a good way to think about all your professional interactions with others, whichever end you are on.

I live and work in a house that’s 53 years old. Like most houses its age, it has issues. The current issue is the water line between the meter and the house. It’s a galvanized line, and that sort of line is only rated for 25 years in this part of the US.

Earlier this spring, I was doing work on the interior plumbing. When I went outside to turn off the water to the house, I noticed that the water line was leaking.

Uh-oh.

I knew that this would happen someday, so I’ve kept a cash-stash in reserve for when it does.

But the cash-stash needs a plumber to actually do the work. I got the names of seven plumbers, interviewed four, and I chose the company whose employees showed the most enthusiasm for doing the work. (The company was also highly recommended.)

Mind you, I’m writing this from Tucson, Arizona, where the daytime highs are reaching the 100-degree mark. (That’s Farenheit. On the Celsius scale, we’re getting close to 40 degrees.)

But that doesn’t stop the plumbers from digging out the old line with gusto. Heck, they even called me out to admire the trench. (Nice work, if I may say so myself.)