Part of what I had to do that upset me was to respond to an inquirer I’d spent hours educating about rates and expectations on a possible translation assignment.  The inquiry had been triggered by my receiving unsolicited confidential legal originals —something that had never happened before in my 20+ years career.  I was responding to the signed letter request to translate the documents, and to forward my invoice—quote unseen.  Obviously, I could not keep these original documents and had to respond.  I could not do the translation without first confirming that my prices would meet with approval, so I had to engage in a dialogue with the person who signed the letter.  The whole situation became even more complicated due to the fact that that person referred me to a third individual.  Dialogue with that third party claiming to be a lawyer, was peppered with insults from him, to which I responded rationally and kindly.  My dilemma was that, as I advertise, if I need to spend beyond 15 minutes to give a quote, I now need to charge for that time as it becomes a consultation.  I spell that out on the Terms and Conditions on my professional website.  I had already spent in excess of four hours dialoguing back and forth with the individuals.  The pressures of earning income, coupled with other of life’s pressures, started weighing on me.  After speaking with Frank, the problem and the solution appeared clearer:  the problem was a seeming resistance to God-like honesty, principle, truth; the solution was to know that God could not be opposed and that man reflects all that is Godlike.  With that Truth in mind, I felt calm and a harmonious flow returned, allowing me to compose a just letter to the prospective client.  While the prospective client’s motives for contacting me remained dubious, a week later I received the small token I had asked for and the dialogue surely bore fruit.