Some of the people at my uni were proper mouth breathers.
Fact is you can buy a degree now.

Fellow freelancers: getting people to pay you on time. Am I right?

Grrr.

Indeed.
One of my clients pay at the end of the month, closest to the invoice due date.
I give 30 days on my invoices, so if I invoice them on the 3rd of April it would be due on the 3rd of May, but they won't pay me until the 31st of May. I end up having to cook dates so that invoice due dates land at the end of the month. A needless annoyance.

Easier said than done but as a freelancer you need a money buffer. I don't really care when I get paid and I'm too tired to chase. I'm sure all my clients think I'm loaded.

Syph79 wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

I'm looking at applying for this job. I don't have a degree, which will likely hinder me, so I need to look fucking amazing. Any tips on covering letter and CV, especially from @legaldinho?

Why are you looking at this role in particular?

Because I want to move into copywriting in some form, and most roles advertised are senior roles, whereas this one isn't.

Well that's me not doing the gardening anymore. Time to look for part-time and/or full-time!

Didn't leave, just my cousin has lost around 10 gardens, which were worth £400 to him roughly. They were gardens owned by people selling their homes, now they've been sold the new owners haven't kept him on. So he can't afford another worker right now, no qualms here about it, understandable, he's got three kids so needs all the cash he can get

Its nae biggy though, doing that has finally given me the confidence to seek something else.

Yeah its something I'm gonna look into, speaking to my advisor next week, she's genuinely good at what she does unlike the majority in that role.

Good luck, Nick.

Good luck mate, fingers crossed for you

Cheers all, much appreciated

Thanks G.

What an experience that was. As interview anecdotes go, this is one I'll remember forever: I turned up about 10 minutes early, walk in to the place, it's a ground floor office with a couple of people at a desk to the left as I come in, opposite the sofa where I'm going to wait.

One asks my name as gets me some water. He comes back and the other dude is joking around saying isn't it bullshit how everyone in every company in the US is a Vice President. I'm smiling because it's true. The water guy is a heavy-set Irish man, now back and sitting on his squishy exercise ball. The other is a diminutive middle-eastern fella, peering out from behind his thick glasses, he looks over to the sofa to include me in the conversation: "it's bullshit isn't it, these job-titles Americans give themselves? What's your job-title?"

"Me, I'm the Vice President of Operations of the Broom Cupboard", I flippantly say. They both laugh.

My interviewer shows up, a very serious looking guy, and the tone changes. The vibe is that now, it's game time.

We go through and start the interview. It's a tough one, 'what are you being paid exactly' is thrown out in the first five minutes. While I'm wrestling with this, knowing I need to play it carefully to be consisdered seriously for the upper end of the salary bracket for the role, out of no-where someone has just opened the door behind us.

My interviewer similes. 'Did you know this guy you were just joking around with is the CEO and company founder?'. It's the Asian dude I just told a terrible joke to. Adrenaline rushed through me, is this good or bad?

It's good: he says he liked the fact that I was in a nervous situation and was able to tune in to the humour in their conversation, that it's a good sign for meeting new people in a new job. He sits in for the next 30 mins of the interview. Serious-guy completely changes, smiling the whole time. More grilling about figures, this time from the CEO and he seems happy with the lack of bullshit in my answers.

Might be on to something here.

Best.

Hope you hear what you want to hear back, man

Hope for good news Nick.

Dinostar77 wrote:

what you are being paid exactly ? fuck off. hate questions like that. just lie and make out you earn 5k more than you really do.

I quite liked it when I was last asked it. I'd recently gone from being full time at this language school where I was doing a shitload of hours for fuck all money to being on a zero-hours contract with a very good hourly rate but fuck all hours. The job I was applying for was part time, so everything was listed as full-time equivalent, so I thought fuck it and just multiplied my hourly rate by 40. It came out to so much that I had to drop it a bit in case I scared them off. Came in handy when they made the offer, though. I asked for more money and got it.