Jeff Berry
Well-known member
I do very well for myself and I have far more than 3 clients that I tend to. I don't need for you to explain to me how my job works. XenReviews was paying the least, so unfortunately it fell to a lower priority. Unfortunately the XenReviews community was (very understandably) unwilling to wait for my "vacation time" to finish the last 10%; thus why I did find a way to get that last 10% done -- I brought back in the original developer. This discussion does need to end.@Jeff Berry Who said this was supposed to be your only source of income? Where was that written? It is a xenforo plugin. Most people have dozens of them and also have other jobs. Perhaps therein lies the entire problem as you somehow believed this one project was going to support your entire livelihood. What contracted developer can say as much? You weren't an employee, you were being paid for the end result of a single reviews plugin. If it takes you 1 month then all the better for you. If it takes you 2 years, something is wrong if that is the only thing you are working on. PLUS, IT WAS NEVER ACTUALLY FINISHED. All your income was speculative. So you never got to earn the income from final product sales (and who knows how much that would have been). I've never had less than 3 clients plus my own ongoing side projects at any one time. I would never expect something like this to be my "livable wage." I honestly think this is a moral issue and I would personally never hire someone who has that attitude. Nothing should have stopped you from BOTH taking on a new highly paid job AND finding a way to finish the last 10% -- even if it was during vacation time. Sometimes you enter a commitment that doesn't seem fair, but you agreed to it and have that obligation. If you can just blow that off, well thats you. Anyways, best of luck in the future and perhaps you're right, you can contribute in another way.
@Alfa1 I'm sure I could login and fix the error if Daniel would like me to, I just don't want to step on his toes.