The Five Biggest Lessons I Learned From Nightmare Bosses
Only you can determine your value & worth.
On a long enough timeline, you will encounter the nightmare client. You know the type — they howl and complain even after you’ve handed over your vital organs. They deliver cryptic responses in lieu of actual feedback. It just needs a little more…something. They add so much project scope they’ve pulled a hamstring from the stretch. Then there’s the client who got high on the Gary V supply and starts speaking jargon instead of English, believing they know more about your work than you do.
Of course, there’s the client who wants instant fame and mega-millions on a five-dollar budget. They’re the brow-furrowing, hands clasping type. How can we make this go viral during a pandemic? They laugh at their own bad jokes.
We’re talking about the kind of client that makes Jack Torrance of The Shining look like a perfectly normal individual — even when he’s wielding an ax in a remote Colorado hotel.
After experiencing the equivalent of consulting PTSD, you go for full-on erasure — they cease to exist. When you remember them, you do it in the dark. Closing your eyes, you replay conference calls as scenes in a low-budget slasher where you are the final girl.
