The time a client asked me to stop 'making things look pretty' and just get the job done
I was doing a landscaping job for this guy outside Austin, and I spent like an hour carefully edging his walkway with a half-moon edger instead of just using the string trimmer. He came out and said 'look, I pay you for function, not art' and it honestly stung at first. But I realized he was right for his situation, his yard was just about keeping weeds down and drainage working, not looking like a magazine. Made me rethink how I approach every job now, asking what people actually want vs what I assume looks good. Has anyone else had a client change how you work with just one blunt comment?