Totally put off

Late yesterday I got an email from somebody I have never met in real life but who I’m indirectly working on a project with. I had never really heard from him before, and we have never been formally introduced. Yet he seized the opportunity to completely criticize some work I had done in a tone that just struck me like a lightning.

I was amazed because I knew my work to be good enough, so it had to be him having a bad day or just being that kind of person. I was totally put off.

This highlights one of the most important and critical aspects of being self-employed: Dealing with customers, clients and partners - even when you don’t want to.

I am going to finish this product on as reasonable terms as can be imagined. But after that I will do, what good people like Stowe Boyd have always advised: Skip that person and never work with him again. It’s just not worth it, and there are plenty of other and better fish in the sea anyway.