Client upset I did not get them more money
This is just a vent. I have two adjacent clients, a county and the county seat (city). There is a $1.8 million dollar road improvement needed along the city limit line to support a new school. The county agreed to fund half the cost but the city could not afford their half. I wrote a detailed letter requesting funding assistance from the state DOT on behalf of both clients jointly, since they are sharing in the project. We were awarded $650k. Now the city is upset with me that they did not get more money and they have to split it with the county. Council believes I played favorites to get the county money instead of it all being theirs and that I should have tried harder to get more money. This same city is months behind paying me. I am ready to tell them to pound sand but am always afraid I will not have enough work. My firm is very small and I actually run a department for this small city.