Worth is derived from comparison. Removing other choices devalues your worth. Competition and free enterprise help bring out our best. Take them away and all you’ve got is apathy.

All I hear is great work for crappy pay. If you want to be seen as the best, don’t go where everyone else is. Make them come to you.

Services like this go the opposite way. Why would anyone devalue their work like this? Unless you’re a college student or it’s just a hobby, you’re wasting your time. Build a portfolio and show it off, but unless you get paid, don’t do the work.

Get it together.

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