Today was both a good day, and a bad day.

Good that I had some work somewhere I’ve worked before and I was specifically asked for and the people are lovely.

Bad in that there’s an outstanding business matter that I’m trying to attend to to the best of my ability, but the person I’m dealing with has accused me of trying to avoid my responsibility and then started to quote things that I’ve mentioned on Twitter and that I’m basically a liar. Makes me feel like I’m being stalked, which, after some advice, is essentially what is happening regardless of what the other party has to say.

You can understand why I’m being deliberately vague so nothing can be taken out of context and no one knows who or what I’m talking about. It’s just I need to let off some steam. And hope that more work comes my way so that I can resolve the matter sooner, rather than later.

With that being said, I applied for five contract jobs, two of which were for 15 and 18 months respectively, and none of them have acknowledged my application. Is that the way business is done these days? I thought you’d at least let people know that you got their application and would let them know as soon as possible what was happening. Or maybe that’s just the old days…

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As things have been a bit slow work-wise, I thought I’d revisit some of the freelance agents that are around. One was Beetroot Consulting. I registered on their site and sent my resume.

Today I got an email back:

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for your interest in Beetroot.  We have carefully reviewed your details and we do not feel you are quite right for what we are looking for at this time.

The clients we represent have very specific needs and as we result of this we need to be very selective as to who we bring in for interview.

Good luck with your search.

Kind regards

So just to be clear, someone with over 18 years experience and a product of one of the best design schools in the world isn’t quite what they’re looking for?

What are they looking for if not for people with talent, experience and drive? Maybe God? Or perhaps they actually don’t have any experience in the industry and have just come from a general recruitment background and don’t know the first thing about design?

And they clearly don’t know how to word an email either.

Guess I’ll see the companies I used to work with and kept me constantly busy.

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