Thank you for the support, It was crushing to be fired (wasn't my fault the company had money issues and couldn't afford to pay everyone so I got cut). I've started freelancing again, some of these clients are more stressful than any job I've had haha.
Hey Jake, support is part of why we're all here. I'm very happy I found this community for that very reason.
Most people don't know/don't care how stressful software development is so it's really good for us to have support from our peers. It helps everyone involved grow.
I haven't freelanced yet, but I can imagine. I used to get customer calls at my corporate job, sometimes demanding that something be added or fixed immediately. My favorite was when one of our good customers called and said "I don't get why this isn't being done right now, it's a 10 minute fix". The good news was that he was pretty rational so I told him that the dev team assessed his fix as being 4 hours of work and why it went to the dev queue - we had a habit of doing truly small fixes quickly - also, that his fix wasn't really a fix...it was an enhancement to the product which doesn't rise to the level of needing an immediate fix.
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Thank you for the support, It was crushing to be fired (wasn't my fault the company had money issues and couldn't afford to pay everyone so I got cut). I've started freelancing again, some of these clients are more stressful than any job I've had haha.
Hey Jake, support is part of why we're all here. I'm very happy I found this community for that very reason.
Most people don't know/don't care how stressful software development is so it's really good for us to have support from our peers. It helps everyone involved grow.
I haven't freelanced yet, but I can imagine. I used to get customer calls at my corporate job, sometimes demanding that something be added or fixed immediately. My favorite was when one of our good customers called and said "I don't get why this isn't being done right now, it's a 10 minute fix". The good news was that he was pretty rational so I told him that the dev team assessed his fix as being 4 hours of work and why it went to the dev queue - we had a habit of doing truly small fixes quickly - also, that his fix wasn't really a fix...it was an enhancement to the product which doesn't rise to the level of needing an immediate fix.