Following orders
If there’s one thing I don’t like about my job, it’s picky clients. Or, to be more polite, clients who really know their own minds. A lot of the time when I get a job, the brief is very vague. I’ll be given a few pointers, maybe some colour selections and the odd specific instruction - like don’t make my daughter’s dress too revealing! I don’t mind following a couple of orders here and there, as long as my creative juices are still allowed to flow.
However, I have one client at the moment who is driving me crazy. I feel like taking everything I’ve done for him so far, sticking it in self storage and leaving the country with the large deposit he’s already paid. I figure I deserve it for all the stress he’s put me through. I should have known not to take the job on when it was described as a “corporate event”. I know he’s probably just getting his orders from his boss, who’s getting his orders from his boss, but it doesn’t seem fair that I feel at the bottom of the pile when I’m the talent!
First, the brief was the most complicated I’ve ever seen; it filled seven pages with meticulous instructions about every aspect of the costume’s design. Now to some costumers, that probably seems like a dream come true. You can work on autopilot, just ticking off the client’s demands one by one. Not me. If I’m not allowed some flexibility and the opportunity to put my own stamp on my work, then I’m afraid I start to sulk. And this sulk is going to go on until either the project is over, or the client accepts that we do things my way…
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