Three Deceptive Moves to Take Advantage of Fellow Freelancers
And three ways to repel such manipulative behaviours.
It took me years to realize that freelancing gravitates to synergy. When you collaborate with fellow freelancers, you can reach a grander audience and improve your skills at the same time. Your motivation skyrockets since you have someone to hold you accountable and give you feedback.
Forging relationships based on truth can occasionally become hurtful to your pride but also enhance your way of doing things and advance your career. To that effect, being bold and negotiating fairly for both parties is undoubtedly one way to work with fellow freelancers.
But there are other, more indirect ways that people use to gain more value for themselves, out of your supposed collaboration. While they thrive with your help, you lose time and energy. Their calibrated moves are based on deception and manipulation.
I welcome you to see their whole facade in the form of a play.
This play, let’s call it “Three Deceptive Moves to Take Advantage of Fellow Freelancers”, consist of three acts. The performance opens with the first act “The Befriending”, continues with “Playing on your need for validation” and magnificently ends with “Setting the parameters of your required…
