Monday, February 20, 2012

Owes Me List

As a self employed / independent contractor / freelance musician, you prefer to get the check right after you play the last note of the gig.  That is not always the case.  Institutions (schools, churches, colleges, prisons, etc...) sometimes cannot pay until the performance is over, the paperwork is filed, and the bureaucracy cuts the check. 

It can take a while.  

You need a system in place to keep up with those jobs with the missing dollars.   Don't trust your memory.  It doesn't need to be that elaborate.   A spiral notebook dedicated to keeping a log of the unpaid work or a running list on a computer file can do the trick of managing your outstanding gig loot.  

(I call that file on my PC..."The Owes Me List."