10 Polite Ways To Say, “Sorry. I Don’t Work For Free.”
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Julia Austin
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Tell them you have bills to pay
Nobody should have to be reminded of this, but sometimes people forget: just like them, you have to pay rent/a mortgage, utility bills, buy groceries, car payments, insurance premiums, and so on and so forth. And unfortunately, the power company doesn’t accept “experience” or “exposure” as payment – even if that’s what a client is offering to pay you instead of money. You need money, plain and simple, just like the person requesting your services doesn’t work for free to pay their bills with dust. You can even say, “I wish I could pay for my car with exposure…but Toyota prefers cash.”
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