>>>>One of my favorite potential ( a potential I never fulfilled ) client from hell was the Dr. who wanted me to write a medical app and said " I could do it myself but I just don't have the time."
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>>>I have been told that by two different clients. I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut.
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>>I wasn't. As Whil used to always say - Better to pass on a client and be sorry than take a client and be sorry.
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>I think there are at least a couple of criteria you can use to evaluate potential clients e.g. attitude and technical knowledge:
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>1. Good attitude, knowledgeable: great client
>2. Good attitude, ignorant: needs work but can be great
>3. Bad attitude, ignorant: client from hell
>4. Bad attitude, knowledgeable: ULTIMATE client from hell
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>Sticking with a client who has a bad attitude is like those women who stay with men who beat them - they have a misguided notion that if they just try a little harder, they'll come round...
Or their self-esteem is so low they can be convinced it is their fault.
I've had a lot of luck with clients over the years. ( Current one being sweetest of the lot <g> ) But I've also been *really* selective in how - and with whom - I spend my time.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
