Cody Robert — design, code, freelancing, productivity, LIP, travel

We’ve all had or will have a client at some point in our careers that simply doesn’t perform for you. They might be overly needy or their personality plain doesn’t mesh well with your own.

But they are your bread and butter. They’re your bed partners as well. They’re your source of income so they can’t simply be shrugged off and ignored. They either have to be worked with or dropped by the wayside.

Rather than struggling through an unworkable situation, the better option is almost always to drop or break-up with them. This post is going to define the description for that client so we can better be prepared for these circumstances.

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As a freelancer, and granted, anyone really, it’s crucially important that we stay as fit and healthy as possible. Big corporations have made billion dollar businesses based on this fact.

We eat our daily vitamin supplements (Flintstones anyone?), we follow our healthy dieting plans, and I bet it’s a good estimate that 1 in 8 people carry a bottle of Aspirin/Ibuprofen/Tylenol with them wherever they go. Just in case they might need it to ward off that oncoming pain.

Who could possibly work the rest of the day with a mild headache?

I had a discussion with my mom the other week about obesity in America. She started telling me about this woman she had seen walking around town nearly everyday during the last few weeks. This woman was also very large, rotund, whatever you’d like to call it. I’m not going to try to be politically correct.

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