working in creative industry and some experience in IT consulting make me wonder whether I’m a consultant or a whore??

Sometime no matter how we follow client’s requirements and guidance, there will be always a way for them to ruin our weekend…

Quoted from a best friend of mine “I think your job is similar to a *sorry* whore, it just clients pay your service with more trailing zeros……..” Working over the weekend -even long weekends-, 24 hours service, and no matter how hard you try to fulfill their request; you can’t make them always stick with you….. then I start to comparing the list between a consultant and a whore (read it with smile…. );

1. do you work by user’s requirements? consultant: yes – whore:yes
2. does your client demands your creativity on deliver the service? consultant: yes – whore:yes
3. do you have any product to be paid for? consultant:no – whore:yes
4. are you helping clients solving their problems? consultant:yes – whore:yes
5. do you need to build a sophisticated image around your service?consultant: yes – whore:yes
6. do you need to entertain your client by providing full service solution? consultant:yes – whore:yes
7. do you need to maintain your look? consultant:yes – whore:yes
8. will you take order from somebody stranger? consultant:yes – whore:yes
9. do you put your mobile phone number in your name card? consultant:yes – whore:yes
10. do you provide ‘onsite’ service for a long time? consultant:yes – whore:yes

~read it with smile….