How Doing Less Work for More Money Saved Client Work

Re:How Doing Less Work for More Money Saved Client Work by sgdesign on Sunday August 28, 2011 @03:16AM (#2933506)

I've reached about all the same conclusions myself, except for the "only work with one client at a time" part. Ideally it would be great, but I've found that design work is often an ongoing process, where you might need to invest tons of hours into designing a home page at one point, and then just spend a couple hours on a widget redesign the next month.

So I need multiple clients just to fill in the gaps when some of them don't need my services that much.

If I applied the "1 client only" rule, it would prevent me from having that flexible long-term relationships with my clients, and I think the quality of my work would suffer from it.

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Re:How Doing Less Work for More Money Saved Client Work by blankenship on Sunday August 28, 2011 @07:57AM (#2933798)

Absolutely agreed. If I was doing 40+ hours a week of client work, I'd have the margin (and financial need) to work with multiple clients in any given season. But in addition to a full-time gig, I just can't swing it.

Most the work I take on is shorter design/direction gigs with 1-3 week timeframes. In the gaps I take my 15 hours and use it for personal work. But again, all unique to my situation.

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Re:How Doing Less Work for More Money Saved Client Work by mvzink on Sunday August 28, 2011 @03:59AM (#2933563)

Yeah, his one client rule is really particular to his situation, not people doing this full time.

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