Twiddling my thumbs!

Twiddling my thumbs!
Just twiddling my thumbs!

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Wow

Eight page views! I haven't even posted anything yet.
Thought I'd riff on the art of quoting for a bit; In the world of professional making is a concept we call the "quote". This is not me spouting Benjamin Franklin but rather me telling you I can make your thing for some amount of money.  If I do this well, my business prospers. If not, we have another concept known as "eating a job", where you not only are not making money but it's costing you money to finish the job. 
Another event in the art of quoting is the "quote of the year". This is the job that you want really, really badly.  The job that will make everything else pure gravy. So you spend a lot of time with this one, making sure it's as good as you can do. You never get the job, of course, but you never know.
So quoting a job is the real game here, a role of the metaphorical dice. Fortunes, or at least income, is won and lost here.  Probably why I don't go to casinos.

1 comment:

  1. Might make a good post to put up that quoting graphic I sketched up, describe how it's supposed to work, and add your own experience with it. Should ginn up some page views.

    Congrats on starting a blog. Between your idle hands and my idle mind we should get very little done.

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