Hey! I don’t have much time to chat about today’s comic — other than it is based on real-life experiences and will continue this week on Wednesday and possibly Friday. Happy Monday everyone. Enjoy —
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Hey! I don’t have much time to chat about today’s comic — other than it is based on real-life experiences and will continue this week on Wednesday and possibly Friday. Happy Monday everyone. Enjoy —
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This is a thing that really happened about a week and a half ago. Huge job shows up on my doorstep, practically gift-wrapped. And it’s big, it’s a lot of work. I send out a fair price, the client comes back, and we settle on something a little lower but still doable. Life is good.
A few days later I get the “guy knows a guy who’d do it for this.” And THIS turned out to be 10% of my bid. My response to this was, well, who the F is this guy bidding huge jobs that low? Was it a teenager? Because I can counter that in a conversation. No, it turned out to be a guy who makes a great living doing something completely unrelated, and just does crap like this on the side to make extra money for ipods or something. Crap Like This being the thing I make a living on.
And I wrote on my page: “I lost a job to someone who bid 10% of my price and in walked a man 10% of my size.”
The heroic story of Preston McPressman can finally be told! Talk about your exciting surprise character inventions — I have a feeling he’s going to stick around for a while.
Hopefully you’ve been noticing some changes we’ve been making around here at 36 Point. Some of these are cosmetic, some are a little more functional. I woke up over the weekend to find each and every 1PT.Rule comic now had a little preview comic off to the side if you stumble across the story on a non-comic-only page. Big enough to see, but small enough that the possibilities engage your brain like a still-wrapped present on Christmas morning. My partner in crime insists the code for this MT hack appeared to him as an apparition, in a vision, and that he felt compelled to create lest its secrets departed his mind for greener pastures. As is often the case in these situations, I found myself going along for the ride.
Do you follow me on Twitter? You should — it seems we’ve started giving away free stuff there once or twice a month now. Also I’m quite dapper.