Shadow's Workshop

In the last few weeks i've been working on a website at home. I sometimes do freelancing, but this client was more anoying then any other i had. Basicly he contacted me and wanted me to build a news website. I accepted and gave them a really low low price because he promised me that if this is successfull he will give me more work and keep me busy for awhile. So i only asked for half of the sites actually worth.(Big mistake) Time passed and i seemed more ocupied with finding excuses why not to work on this website instead of actually finding reasons to do something. So at one point they just got angry with me and we ended the project. All that code i wrote was now useless.

Then some time passed and my phone rang. Guess who was on the other end? The customer of course, i bet he couldn't find anybody to do his site for such a low price. So we quickly agreed to restart work on the website. Remember that useless code i wrote before, well it turns out it wasn't all that useless

I agreed this time to do it because i just wanted to get something up and working. Then timing was unfortunate again, because it was just 1 week before i was supposed to go on vacation. What did i do? Of course i went on my vacation, i mean i only get 2 of them a year i might as well profit from it as long as i can.

Meanwhile emails where rushing trough my inbox with messages like:
"Upload it NOW!!" and "SOS we need to see the website now!!!".

I even agreed to meet them because we finally where in the same country, what did i get out of the meeting? A visit to McDonalds and a soda. Even though i was expecting some money, i only got more and more feature requests.

So today after getting another one of those "UPLOAD ASAP!!!!" emails i decided to cut my loses and move on. Tonight i am going work till 3-4AM and get the basic stuff up and running and then zip it up and send it out.

Even though this sounds like the death of my freelancing career, i will have to tell you that there's nothing to worry about. In the near future i am going to focus on my own personal projects, been putting them off for far to long now.

Now don't get me wrong, i know i handled this whole project in a terrible way, i am the only one to blaim for this situation and i accept this blaim. I understand what the client will feel, tomorow as he reads his my email, but i just can't handle, another week of staying up till 2-3-4AM in the morning and then going to work at 10 putting in 8-9 hours there two.

I do not have any more energy to invest into this project, in the end i will leave you with a song from LinkinPark.

There’s only one thing you should know
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter