Striving to do your best is a good and proper thing, but allowing yourself to be taken advantage of is not a virtue in of itself.
Dang! As much as I enjoy sharing differing ideas in a never-ending quest for enlightenment, I think we're in total agreement here. A person should respect himself and his craft. Of course that respect needs to be tempered, or it will metastasize into unbridled egotism. Somewhere there is balance. If you figure out where that is, please drop a pin and send it to me.
Yep, I'm with you there. Self respect can easily become just selfishness if allowed to, which isn't good for anyone including yourself. Honestly, I believe there is a way to pursue the balance even though it is never fully achieved, but it quickly becomes philosophical or religious sounding going into that which is not on topic here.
