So my wife and I finally met THE doctor. By all accounts he will be the one with his hands buried between my wife’s legs telling her to push in around four months time and it dawned on me … this could well possibly be my greatest planned design job and I’m not even sure how much work it’s really going to involve?! Well OK, I know it’s going to cry a bunch, beg for more, crap it’s pants and crave all of my attention without me getting much sleep. Basically, I think our impending arrival of drool could well be my worst client ever! Greatest design, worst client … sound familiar?
Not that I’m not looking forward to it, in fact it’s the complete opposite. I’m researching this prospective client like never before. I’ve happily walked in baby stores, baby boutiques and smiled at every baby going by, though in a couple of cases that’s brought on a bit of trouble. One piece of trouble inquired; “What are you smiling at, creep?” There’s something about this whole having a new client business that’s got me smiling like never before.
I’m going to be a Dad! That’s a pretty cool thing to say, at least I think. I will get up late during the nights, help with the feeding, the nurturing. I will happily clean up the messes, the crap and whatever else it decides to throw at me. I will do all of this with a huge smile on my face, and talk to it into submission, make it all better again and put it back to bed. By all means necessary I will make the little bugger of a client happy that he has chosen me to be it’s designer.
I will put up with whatever will be thrown my way and do it with a smile. Hell, I’ll even make the logo freakin’ bigger if need be! I will continue to do this so long as it keeps my client happy because I know the pay is so worth it. And I’m not talking about just the pooping, crying, teething jobs either. There’s going to be the initial designer/client relationship growing days. But what about all those other jobs? From the getting out of a jam, need it right now jobs. The dropping off personally jobs, and caught trying to buck the ride jobs. The plan it, organize it and get it done for free jobs, and I didn’t know it cost that much jobs. We know those jobs, the work involved, the blood, sweat, tears and lack of sleep that they can cause.
My hardest, most difficult and demanding client is coming, and I seriously can’t wait! At the end of the day, no matter how much hair we loose, weight we gain, there are just some clients we would do absolutely anything for. Why? Because we are designers and we love what we do. We create designs that work, expand and inspire! I’m not in this gig for the money, oh don’t worry though, there will be an invoice at the end of all this. I’m not asking for much, love, respect and loyalty is payment enough. I’m in this industry because of the smile it puts on my face every time I put that job to bed.
