Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
subtitle: It’s hard to say you love someone, and it’s hard to say you don’t - Del Amitri
Maybe I’m a sentimental fool (hat tip Michael McDonald), or just a little more sensitive than most - but seeing a former client move on and start working with another designer always makes me a little sad. Regardless of how amicable the separation was, you always feel a little sting in the “it’s not you it’s me” that always comes to pass. And while you know it’s inevitable and you’re excited to see the new stuff, you always sort of wish you were still part of the old game.
But on the upside, it looks like I’m going to be doing some very cool stuff in the next few months and am working on a partnership or two that have tremendous potential, so I’m very stoked.
What about you? Do any of you struggle when you step out of client relationships and move on?
Even if I didn’t like the client or the job, I still get upset when they threaten to hire another programmer, or that they’ve got their accountant’s nephew working on it. That one really burns it.