I share a story of how I did not get paid for doing a 3 months long project for a client.
Has anyone else here had freelance foes like this? My goal is to prevent others from making the same mistakes that I did because I have heard similar stories from my friends.
This is from Sunny Commutes podcast episode 75.
That's terrible man, but at least you learned from it. I had a similar issue with a client early on, but not the exact same thing. I kept putting proposals and scope documents together for a board member of a non-profit over the course of 2 months, to the tune of about 8 hours of work.
At our final meeting, he changed the scope and asked me to redo the proposal... again. At this point I had already quit my day job and was developing my own company, so I politely told him that I had already changed the documents 5+ times and that I had not been paid for any of my time. He then admitted that he didn't actually have access to funding for the project and had to get a vote from the board to fund it, but they only met quarterly. I pulled the plug. Lesson learned.