As a ‘creative’, people who expect you to work for nothing but exposure.
A bloke came to me recently, wanting an enormous vinyl record storage wall building.
Ceiling high vinyl storage, 2.5m wide with a huge pull out surface into which he wanted all his decks, amps and mixers etc sunk into.
Cool job, but a very big job, needing very strong materials and some over engineering considering he wants a 2.3m wide pull out section in one piece, housing lots of heavy audio equipment.
I build a quote up and the materials alone would be well over 2k. I estimate 4k upwards for me to build and install it, and that’s being fairly lean on the time it’ll realistically take me to build such a big piece.
He comes back saying, he only wants to go to 2.5k but that he would happily promote me to his 157000 followers on Instagram.
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