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archkre · June 9th, 2008

A friend of a relative gave me a call and told me he needed his house renovated.
Since I don´t have an office and it would be a freelance work, we always had appointments
in the client´s house , more than 50 miles away.
After he told me the scope of the renovation I went back home and with the based on the
plans the client gave me started working on a proposal.
After having worked for more than a week on it, we have a showdown and he loved the
proposal.
I kept on working on that, but the next contacts were thru the phone.
Unexpectedly in the last occation he told me he really loved the proposal, but he wanted to
wait until the economy recovers from this recession to go on!
I didn´t receive a single buck after more of 2 months of work!
How to avoid this in the day to day professional practice?
How should I proceed to avoid this kind of stupid results in the profession?
Thank you

June 9th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
archkre Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Buenos Aires ,Argentina Posts: 499 Name: Daniel Kreimer	How to stop working in vain? A friend of a relative gave me a call and told me he needed his house renovated. Since I don´t have an office and it would be a freelance work, we always had appointments in the client´s house , more than 50 miles away. After he told me the scope of the renovation I went back home and with the based on the plans the client gave me started working on a proposal. After having worked for more than a week on it, we have a showdown and he loved the proposal. I kept on working on that, but the next contacts were thru the phone. Unexpectedly in the last occation he told me he really loved the proposal, but he wanted to wait until the economy recovers from this recession to go on! I didn´t receive a single buck after more of 2 months of work! How to avoid this in the day to day professional practice? How should I proceed to avoid this kind of stupid results in the profession? Thank you __________________ 'Back in the young fatherland' Last edited by archkre; June 9th, 2008 at 03:36 PM.