It happens that sometimes I do things for free to others. I love it – and sometimes even more than work for money. And not just me. Whole open source community is based on free collaborative work. And i suppose that also you help others for free. But then comes moment you realise that you don’t have time for you own. Or even worse – that you’ve been abused. That means that you have to learn when to say “No”!
Jessica Hische has made a good flowchart to help in these situations to decide should you (me) wrok for free or not in a specific case.
Click on chart to see it larger or better visit http://www.shouldiworkforfree.com for HTML version that allows translations into other languages.
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