blah. that's how i feel right now. i have no motivation for anything. i just can't get excited about building a crappy latin music retail site when the client doesn't want to spend any money on it, but wants it to be done fast, cheap, and well.
him: "the site loads slow."
me: "yeah, it's on a shared box and the load is pretty heavy. you should purchase at least a dedicated box, if not a dedicated web server and a separate dedicated database server."
him: "that sounds too expensive."
uh..yeah dumbass, it's expensive...duh.
one of my co-workers was telling me about a paradigm one of his motion graphics buddies was telling him about:
the project triangle. there are three corners: fast, cheap, and good. you can place your point anywhere on the triangle, but it's only a point, so there are trade-offs. the cheaper you want it, the farther it gets from good and fast. if you want it good and cheap, it's going to take a long time, and if you want it good and fast, it's going to be really expensive. grr.
unfortunately, execs most often choose a balance between fast and cheap, and sacrifice good, because execs like numbers, and time and cost are quantifiable, whereas quality is more difficult to measure....and then they bitch about stuff not working right or customers having difficulty using the site or whatever.
him: "the site loads slow."
me: "yeah, it's on a shared box and the load is pretty heavy. you should purchase at least a dedicated box, if not a dedicated web server and a separate dedicated database server."
him: "that sounds too expensive."
uh..yeah dumbass, it's expensive...duh.
one of my co-workers was telling me about a paradigm one of his motion graphics buddies was telling him about:
the project triangle. there are three corners: fast, cheap, and good. you can place your point anywhere on the triangle, but it's only a point, so there are trade-offs. the cheaper you want it, the farther it gets from good and fast. if you want it good and cheap, it's going to take a long time, and if you want it good and fast, it's going to be really expensive. grr.
unfortunately, execs most often choose a balance between fast and cheap, and sacrifice good, because execs like numbers, and time and cost are quantifiable, whereas quality is more difficult to measure....and then they bitch about stuff not working right or customers having difficulty using the site or whatever.
Fuck, if only clients didn't have to spoil our gigs as commercial artists. Little bitches what have no aesthetic!
Just give him cheap-as-in-tacky, fast-as-in-there's-no-way-you-spent-more-than-an-hour-on-this-shit, and good-as-in-GOOD-GOD-that's-the-ugliest-site-i've-ever-sited...
and then you never get hired again.
I dunno. That shit's tough, and unfortunately, seems to happen a lot more often than is fair. Cool clients are few and far between.
You're tough shit, though, aren't ya? You'll get it done.
...and then you'll get some sleep, okay? Like me now.
ZZZZZZZzzzZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
See Bean.
See Bean Rock.
Rock, Bean, Rock.
(...and there goes the Casbah now...)