Lately there have been a few images being shared on LinkedIn that have been liked and re-shared quite favourable, all of them touching on a common theme.
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If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur
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The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten
Even designers have had their own go at expressing the same sentiment.
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If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design
One of the few books I’ve had time to read in the last twelve months was Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Whether the mastery of a craft takes 10,000 hours or approximately 10 years is applicable to all situations isn’t something I know about outside of my own experience. That is, only after working for about nine to ten years did things really start to make a lot more sense, as did my place in scheme of things. That is the time when I began to feel entirely comfortable being thrown into almost any situation as a web developer and know that I could cost, measure, plan, design and implement the core requirement of what it is that’s being asked for; in almost any business situation.
For anyone who is being challenged in their salary negotiation, who is looking twice at what they’re really worth when faced down by a table full of doubters pushing them to yield and cut their rate, salary or price to something that aligns more with a business climate that would hire them, I leave you with the following story, supposedly about the painter Picasso.
In the shortest version, so the story goes:
Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her. Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her. After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him. Picasso replied $5,000. The woman screamed “but it took you only five minutes”. No, madam, it took me all my life, replied Picasso.
So stick to your guns, or as Janis Joplin said, “don’t compromise yourself, you’re all you’ve got”.
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Image may be NSFW.
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