9th July 2015, 01:05 PM
Since Jack is too busy to play Devil's Advocate [he's been let loose writing a huge monograph, Lordy help us...]...
...Clients aren't (usually) prepared to pay for quality work, and unfortunately most curators etc seem to settle for barely adequate, so if you have any professional pride and want to do anything half decently you have to put the time (usually your own) in...or not
And those people who stay that extra 30 minutes in the p***ing rain at the end of the job to rescue those extra couple of samples or whatever DO, in fact, get remembered next time around. I'm probably, in any conventional sense, unemployable, but I've never let that hold me back, I've just always made sure that I'm indispensible :face-approve:
...Clients aren't (usually) prepared to pay for quality work, and unfortunately most curators etc seem to settle for barely adequate, so if you have any professional pride and want to do anything half decently you have to put the time (usually your own) in...or not
And those people who stay that extra 30 minutes in the p***ing rain at the end of the job to rescue those extra couple of samples or whatever DO, in fact, get remembered next time around. I'm probably, in any conventional sense, unemployable, but I've never let that hold me back, I've just always made sure that I'm indispensible :face-approve: