Quality Control
I've been described as a perfectionist, at least when it comes to myself. But I lax a bit when I'm working on stuff for other people. I've learned that the general expectation of what is acceptable quality for published work (newsletters, newspapers, books, magazines, etc.) is way lower than my expectation. Especially when someone is doing it for free, just for the sake of having the information out there. This really, really, really bothers me. If you're going to do something, you should do it properly and if you don't know how to do it properly, then you hire someone who can do it properly. I'm not perfect and I make mistakes all the time, but I generally don't attempt to do things for the public that I don't know how to do. It really bothers me when people install an art, web design, or Publisher-type program and think they're suddenly an expert and should be creating things to put out in the public. Years and years ago, I belonged to a huge
