Lessons Learned In The Quest For Freedom Part 2

For the record, we close 3 sale in Penang. We broke the egg! Close another sale after the KL session a week later. Got an associate trainer to train in Mandarin for JB session and she did an excellent job despite the fact that there's a pain in the @$$ in the group.

Today we realize that someone (from the client side) did something behind our back. Everyone in the team was shock. I was speechless.

James Bond was right. (refer my earlier blog)

We received our first few cheques. I completed the cartoon project for a chef. Billion completed her translation work. Our faces came out in the newspaper Star Metro on 14 Aug. Great!

Billion accidentaly offended a client. Client got angry and ...you know whatlah. She said she can take it. I felt bad for her ...because the truth is...we are really underpaid for this job. What started off as an hour talk for $XXX amount became 2 full days of research work, hours of discussion, and almost a full day training/administration work. And that doesn't even include props and our intellectual property. Furthermore we got to bear with the client's bragging and self praise (similar to our old boss). Lesson learned - be clear of the expectations (spoken and unspoken) and remuneration before commiting to a project! The good news is - we are not under employment. We don't have to go through this pain for long. Clients can choose us, we can choose our clients too. Thats freedom!

However, we must thank this client for giving us a chance. I guess they sincerely wants to help us. If we just overlook the negativity/misunderstanding, this client is soooooo much better than our ex-boss!

Today I met with an interesting character. Good news coming soon....


Loke