Comments on: Cash or Creativity?

By: ¿Money or creativity?¿What’s first?

¿Money or creativity?¿What’s first? — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:18:33 +0000

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By: apple-ec2link

apple-ec2link — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:16:44 +0000

Interesting question. Although I suspect most people don’t have the luxury of being able to choose.

By: ¿El dinero o la creatividad?

¿El dinero o la creatividad? — Tue, 15 May 2007 06:50:06 +0000

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By: RomeoAngel

RomeoAngel — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:20:51 +0000

I will agree. As a freelance designer you must find the balance between your creativity and how long it is charged in matters of time (time=money)

By: Tara1

Tara1 — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:19:00 +0000

Hi Vivienne,

Thanks for commenting.

I love that line “cash for trash” I’ll remember that one

By: Vivienne Quek

Vivienne Quek — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:07:59 +0000

Creativity is stimulating for survival in the creative industry. Cash is for our bread and butter, cake and cherry. Long time back, on separate occasions, I asked my Aussie CD and then my German AD, if they would take up a real boring and tedious project but the money is good. Their unianimous answer was “why not, cash for trash”. I nearly flipped, they picked the line from my Brit MD.

By: johno

johno — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:24:26 +0000

Thanks for the link Tara.

By: webee

webee — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:23:05 +0000

hi to you all,

tara’s experience is relevant for me too.
i’ve worked as a designer for print for about 4 years now. split into 2 jobs.

my first job was really repetitive, but helped me get familiar with different software solutions. i quit after 1.5 years.
i’m on my second design job within a small advertising company. doing much bigger, but mainly cash oriented projects. my second year here has just started a few months ago.
and… to be honest… i really don’t think i’ll end it here.

so see? i too am constantly looking that more creative tasks…

webee
[is a design blog]

By: Paul Enderson

Paul Enderson — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:46:01 +0000

“8k for 3 pages! I’ve got the wrong customers. You want to swap some with me”

“I think I would learn HTML very quickly for jobs like that!”

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I always remember something my clairvoyent told me… She said that I would have some jobs I could charge double for, and barely do any work – and then other jobs where I would do more work than I was paid for.

That’s how it’s always been with my clients. I’ve got one at the moment, for whom I’ve worked more than 200 hours. His bill will be for 120 pounds.

That’s one of the tricks you have to learn when freelancing – taking the good stuff with the rubbish!

By: Tara1

Tara1 — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:35:58 +0000

Paul, I think I would learn HTML very quickly for jobs like that!

Johno – the editable comments is something that Vivien at http://www.inspirationbit.com suggested the link to the Ajax Edit comments plugin
I am off to check your post now too.

Hi Randa, you really do need a balance, its easy to get bored, but of course there are always bills to pay.

Hi Aaron, I never turn work down if I can fit it in, but I do think you need some creativity otherwise your works gets stale.