Life as a freelance developer isn't always plain sailing. I can deal with the bulk of my day to day activities including requirements gathering, designing and implementing features with code, testing and of course deployments. It's what I am paid to do by clients.

The one thing I have trouble with is rush jobs to meet a deadline. As a developer I would ideally like to write tests for all my code, re-factor it and get it to a place where I feel comfortable shipping it. In the real world though that doesn't always happen. Sometimes it's only hours you get to either rush some code changes through. A depressing experience for any developer who takes pride in their work.

In scenarios like this I like to remember that although the code I am shipping in not tested or re-factored to my preferred standard, I can always pick up the code the next day after the deadline has passed. Before I pick up any other tasks tomorrow, I'll ensure that the sub-standard code I previously shipped is correctly tested and re-factored appropriately.